Kansas City Fraud

Kansas City · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Kansas City police open data recorded 1,639 fraud incidents, 3.2% of all 51,844 incidents reported in the city that year and down 3.4% from 2024. That is about 318 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,268 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Kansas City by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)1,268——
20251,639318down 3.4%
20241,696329down 10.9%
20231,903369up 13.0%
20221,684326up 1.6%
20211,657321down 6.4%
20201,771343down 0.7%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 15,869 fraud incidents.

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Kansas City in 2025?

1,639, according to Kansas City Missouri Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Kansas City?

Reported fraud was down 3.4% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 2.7% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Kansas City Missouri Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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