3Machakos

Machakos, Kenya: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 3 out of 10 Above average crime

3/10 in Kenya · 3/10 in the world

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

Weighted crime: 1,279 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	302	21.2	17.2
Rape, defilement, incest, unnatural offences, bestiality, indecent assault, abduction and bigamy.
Violence
Other offences against persons	803	56.5	47
Assault, creating disturbance and affray.
Robbery
Robbery	104	7.3	5.2
Includes robbery with violence, carjacking and cattle rustling.
Theft and burglary
Breakings (burglary)	233	16.4	10.4
House breaking, burglary and other breaking.
Theft of livestock	73	5.1	4.1
Stealing	520	36.6	24.6
General stealing, stealing from a person or a building, by tenants, and handling stolen property.
Theft by employees	101	7.1	3.8
Stealing by employees, agents and directors.
Vehicle thefts	48	3.4	2.7
Theft of and from motor vehicles, of parts and of motorcycles.
Drugs
Drug offences	248	17.4	12.1
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	253	17.8	9.7
Includes arson.
Other
Homicide and other deaths	97	6.8	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	139	9.8	8.4
Obtaining by false pretence, forgery and false accounting.
Corruption	15	1.1	0.2
Offences involving police officers	0	0	0.2
Offences involving tourists	0	0	0.1
Other Penal Code offences	331	23.3	17.9

Source: National Police Service, updated 26 October 2026.