Property Crime Pushes Saline County Above Kansas Crime Average
Property crime was the main reason Saline County’s 2025 crime-index rate finished above the Kansas statewide average, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation’s 2025 Crime Index Report.
Saline County reported 1,114 property crimes in 2025, for a property-crime rate of 20.9 offenses per 1,000 people. The statewide property-crime rate was 17.9 per 1,000 people.
The largest category was theft. KBI listed 865 thefts in Saline County, along with 166 burglaries and 83 motor vehicle thefts. The report also listed 17 arsons in a separate arson column.
Theft made up about 78% of Saline County’s reported property-crime total. That closely follows the statewide pattern. KBI said Kansas reported 40,334 theft offenses in 2025, accounting for 75.6% of total property crimes reported statewide.
Salina Police Department reported the majority of property crimes in the county. The agency reported 1,045 property crimes, including 157 burglaries, 811 thefts, 77 motor vehicle thefts and 17 arsons.
By comparison, the Saline County Sheriff’s Office reported 69 property crimes, including 9 burglaries, 54 thefts and 6 motor vehicle thefts. Assaria Police Department did not report any property crimes in the KBI table.
The property-crime numbers help explain why Saline County’s overall crime-index rate was higher than the state average even though its violent-crime rate was not. Saline County’s overall index rate was 25.2 per 1,000 people, above the statewide rate of 22.5, while its violent-crime rate was 4.2, below the statewide rate of 4.6.
The numbers do not identify what caused the property-crime totals. The KBI report does not break the theft category down into retail theft, vehicle break-ins, shoplifting, stolen property, repeat offenders or other local factors.
That leaves several local questions for law enforcement and city officials: whether thefts are concentrated around retail corridors, whether vehicle-related crimes are increasing, whether repeat offenders are driving the numbers, and whether local prevention efforts are reducing or shifting property-crime patterns.
KBI states the accuracy of the report depends on crimes being reported to law enforcement and agencies submitting reports according to state standards. That means the numbers are useful for comparison, but they are still based on reported crime, not every crime that may have occurred.