1Nyamira

Nyamira, 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: 1,522 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	148	24.4	17.2
Rape, defilement, incest, unnatural offences, bestiality, indecent assault, abduction and bigamy.
Violence
Other offences against persons	488	80.6	47
Assault, creating disturbance and affray.
Robbery
Robbery	52	8.6	5.2
Includes robbery with violence, carjacking and cattle rustling.
Theft and burglary
Breakings (burglary)	64	10.6	10.4
House breaking, burglary and other breaking.
Theft of livestock	32	5.3	4.1
Stealing	113	18.7	24.6
General stealing, stealing from a person or a building, by tenants, and handling stolen property.
Theft by employees	11	1.8	3.8
Stealing by employees, agents and directors.
Vehicle thefts	10	1.7	2.7
Theft of and from motor vehicles, of parts and of motorcycles.
Drugs
Drug offences	69	11.4	12.1
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	83	13.7	9.7
Includes arson.
Other
Homicide and other deaths	133	22	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	32	5.3	8.4
Obtaining by false pretence, forgery and false accounting.
Corruption	1	0.2	0.2
Offences involving police officers	0	0	0.2
Offences involving tourists	0	0	0.1
Other Penal Code offences	115	19	17.9

Source: National Police Service, updated 26 October 2026.