7Siaya

Siaya, Kenya: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 7 out of 10 Low crime

7/10 in Kenya · 3/10 in the world

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

Weighted crime: 956 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	187	18.8	17.2
Rape, defilement, incest, unnatural offences, bestiality, indecent assault, abduction and bigamy.
Violence
Other offences against persons	447	45	47
Assault, creating disturbance and affray.
Robbery
Robbery	27	2.7	5.2
Includes robbery with violence, carjacking and cattle rustling.
Theft and burglary
Breakings (burglary)	98	9.9	10.4
House breaking, burglary and other breaking.
Theft of livestock	51	5.1	4.1
Stealing	122	12.3	24.6
General stealing, stealing from a person or a building, by tenants, and handling stolen property.
Theft by employees	12	1.2	3.8
Stealing by employees, agents and directors.
Vehicle thefts	14	1.4	2.7
Theft of and from motor vehicles, of parts and of motorcycles.
Drugs
Drug offences	92	9.3	12.1
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	51	5.1	9.7
Includes arson.
Other
Homicide and other deaths	90	9.1	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	23	2.3	8.4
Obtaining by false pretence, forgery and false accounting.
Corruption	0	0	0.2
Offences involving police officers	0	0	0.2
Offences involving tourists	0	0	0.1
Other Penal Code offences	124	12.5	17.9

Source: National Police Service, updated 26 October 2026.