5Kitui

Kitui, Kenya: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 5 out of 10 Average crime

5/10 in Kenya · 3/10 in the world

Compared with 47 places in the same country (10 = lowest crime).

Weighted crime: 1,129 per 100,000 people (2021)

Crime by type, as recorded by National Police Service (2021)

Type	Count	Per 100,000 a year	All places this source covers
Sexual offences
Offences against morality	224	19.7	17.2
Rape, defilement, incest, unnatural offences, bestiality, indecent assault, abduction and bigamy.
Violence
Other offences against persons	623	54.8	47
Assault, creating disturbance and affray.
Robbery
Robbery	24	2.1	5.2
Includes robbery with violence, carjacking and cattle rustling.
Theft and burglary
Breakings (burglary)	130	11.4	10.4
House breaking, burglary and other breaking.
Theft of livestock	150	13.2	4.1
Stealing	259	22.8	24.6
General stealing, stealing from a person or a building, by tenants, and handling stolen property.
Theft by employees	20	1.8	3.8
Stealing by employees, agents and directors.
Vehicle thefts	10	0.9	2.7
Theft of and from motor vehicles, of parts and of motorcycles.
Drugs
Drug offences	79	7	12.1
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	159	14	9.7
Includes arson.
Other
Homicide and other deaths	83	7.3	6.9
As the National Police Service counts it: murder, manslaughter, infanticide, procuring abortion, concealing birth, suicide and causing death by dangerous driving (2021 nationally: 2,018 of 3,281 were murders).
Economic crimes	70	6.2	8.4
Obtaining by false pretence, forgery and false accounting.
Corruption	1	0.1	0.2
Offences involving police officers	0	0	0.2
Offences involving tourists	2	0.2	0.1
Other Penal Code offences	317	27.9	17.9

Source: National Police Service, updated 26 October 2026.