4Makueni

Makueni, Kenya: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 4 out of 10 Above average crime

4/10 in Kenya · 3/10 in the world

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

Weighted crime: 1,197 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	24.9	17.2
Rape, defilement, incest, unnatural offences, bestiality, indecent assault, abduction and bigamy.
Violence
Other offences against persons	504	51	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)	130	13.2	10.4
House breaking, burglary and other breaking.
Theft of livestock	51	5.2	4.1
Stealing	202	20.5	24.6
General stealing, stealing from a person or a building, by tenants, and handling stolen property.
Theft by employees	19	1.9	3.8
Stealing by employees, agents and directors.
Vehicle thefts	21	2.1	2.7
Theft of and from motor vehicles, of parts and of motorcycles.
Drugs
Drug offences	128	13	12.1
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	95	9.6	9.7
Includes arson.
Other
Homicide and other deaths	120	12.2	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	53	5.4	8.4
Obtaining by false pretence, forgery and false accounting.
Corruption	2	0.2	0.2
Offences involving police officers	13	1.3	0.2
Offences involving tourists	0	0	0.1
Other Penal Code offences	258	26.1	17.9

Source: National Police Service, updated 26 October 2026.