The Crime Indices range from 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime). Our crime rates are based on FBI data.
Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims.
| Cities with the Least Crime Near Lawrence, Kansas | Crime Index |
| Baldwin City, KS | 16.4 |
| Lecompton, KS | 17.0 |
| Eudora, KS | 18.2 |
| Lawrence, KS | 38.3 |