6Nakuru

Nakuru, Kenya: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 6 out of 10 Average crime

6/10 in Kenya · 3/10 in the world

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

Weighted crime: 1,087 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	390	18	17.2
Rape, defilement, incest, unnatural offences, bestiality, indecent assault, abduction and bigamy.
Violence
Other offences against persons	1,012	46.8	47
Assault, creating disturbance and affray.
Robbery
Robbery	144	6.7	5.2
Includes robbery with violence, carjacking and cattle rustling.
Theft and burglary
Breakings (burglary)	290	13.4	10.4
House breaking, burglary and other breaking.
Theft of livestock	64	3	4.1
Stealing	748	34.6	24.6
General stealing, stealing from a person or a building, by tenants, and handling stolen property.
Theft by employees	106	4.9	3.8
Stealing by employees, agents and directors.
Vehicle thefts	52	2.4	2.7
Theft of and from motor vehicles, of parts and of motorcycles.
Drugs
Drug offences	443	20.5	12.1
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	202	9.3	9.7
Includes arson.
Other
Homicide and other deaths	140	6.5	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	270	12.5	8.4
Obtaining by false pretence, forgery and false accounting.
Corruption	0	0	0.2
Offences involving police officers	2	0.1	0.2
Offences involving tourists	4	0.2	0.1
Other Penal Code offences	402	18.6	17.9

Source: National Police Service, updated 26 October 2026.