8Kajiado

Kajiado, Kenya: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 8 out of 10 Low crime

8/10 in Kenya · 4/10 in the world

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

Weighted crime: 860 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	170	15.2	17.2
Rape, defilement, incest, unnatural offences, bestiality, indecent assault, abduction and bigamy.
Violence
Other offences against persons	412	36.9	47
Assault, creating disturbance and affray.
Robbery
Robbery	66	5.9	5.2
Includes robbery with violence, carjacking and cattle rustling.
Theft and burglary
Breakings (burglary)	94	8.4	10.4
House breaking, burglary and other breaking.
Theft of livestock	42	3.8	4.1
Stealing	297	26.6	24.6
General stealing, stealing from a person or a building, by tenants, and handling stolen property.
Theft by employees	51	4.6	3.8
Stealing by employees, agents and directors.
Vehicle thefts	32	2.9	2.7
Theft of and from motor vehicles, of parts and of motorcycles.
Drugs
Drug offences	77	6.9	12.1
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	70	6.3	9.7
Includes arson.
Other
Homicide and other deaths	54	4.8	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	84	7.5	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	0	0	0.1
Other Penal Code offences	174	15.6	17.9

Source: National Police Service, updated 26 October 2026.