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Meru, Kenya: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 1 out of 10 High crime

1/10 in Kenya · 2/10 in the world

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

Weighted crime: 1,756 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	246	15.9	17.2
Rape, defilement, incest, unnatural offences, bestiality, indecent assault, abduction and bigamy.
Violence
Other offences against persons	1,662	107.5	47
Assault, creating disturbance and affray.
Robbery
Robbery	119	7.7	5.2
Includes robbery with violence, carjacking and cattle rustling.
Theft and burglary
Breakings (burglary)	236	15.3	10.4
House breaking, burglary and other breaking.
Theft of livestock	155	10	4.1
Stealing	889	57.5	24.6
General stealing, stealing from a person or a building, by tenants, and handling stolen property.
Theft by employees	89	5.8	3.8
Stealing by employees, agents and directors.
Vehicle thefts	57	3.7	2.7
Theft of and from motor vehicles, of parts and of motorcycles.
Drugs
Drug offences	214	13.8	12.1
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	413	26.7	9.7
Includes arson.
Other
Homicide and other deaths	152	9.8	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	188	12.2	8.4
Obtaining by false pretence, forgery and false accounting.
Corruption	7	0.5	0.2
Offences involving police officers	1	0.1	0.2
Offences involving tourists	3	0.2	0.1
Other Penal Code offences	601	38.9	17.9

Source: National Police Service, updated 26 October 2026.