Crime & Safety in Kennesaw
Kennesaw's crime picture shows a genuine, sharp disagreement between its two most-cited third-party sources -- similar in kind to the Katy, TX split documented elsewhere in this dataset. NeighborhoodScout reads Kennesaw as safer than comparably-sized US cities, while CrimeGrade assigns a D+ grade and a below-average safety percentile. Both are real, current, and disclosed here by name rather than resolved into one verdict.
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Learn moreNeighborhoodScout's more favorable, comparison-dependent read
NeighborhoodScout cites an overall crime rate of 11 per 1,000 residents for Kennesaw -- "considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America" by its own framing -- but then notes that, compared specifically to OTHER communities of similar population size, Kennesaw's rate is "noticeably lower than the average," making it read as safer than most comparably-sized cities nationally. The chance of being a victim of violent or property crime is cited at 1 in 89.
CrimeGrade's less favorable read
CrimeGrade instead cites an overall crime rate of 31.68 per 1,000 residents in a typical year, assigning a D+ overall grade and placing Kennesaw in just the 30th percentile for safety nationally (safer than only 30% of US cities by its methodology) -- a real, meaningfully less favorable read than NeighborhoodScout's comparably-sized-cities framing.
These two sources genuinely disagree, largely over comparison basis
The disagreement here is partly explainable by methodology: NeighborhoodScout's more favorable framing depends on comparing Kennesaw specifically to similarly-sized cities, while its own raw rate (11/1,000) still reads as above the national average across ALL community sizes -- and CrimeGrade's D+/30th-percentile grade is a more unfavorable read regardless of comparison basis. This is a real, disclosed, genuinely mixed picture, not a clean "safe" or "unsafe" verdict -- similar in spirit to the Katy, TX crime-data disagreement documented in katy-topics.js.
Check a specific address directly, and expect real block-level variance
CrimeGrade notes real neighborhood-level variance within Kennesaw -- residents consider the southwest part of the city safest (roughly 1-in-62 odds of victimization) versus the east (roughly 1-in-13). Per site policy, no specific lower-rated area is named here -- check a specific address directly with both CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout, and factor in that the two tools may give meaningfully different overall reads for the same address given their disclosed disagreement.
Key takeaways
- NeighborhoodScout cites an overall crime rate of 11 per 1,000 for Kennesaw -- above the national average across all communities, but reading as safer than most comparably-sized US cities specifically (1-in-89 victimization odds).
- CrimeGrade instead assigns a D+ overall grade with a combined rate of 31.68 per 1,000, placing Kennesaw in only the 30th percentile for safety nationally -- a meaningfully less favorable read.
- These two named sources genuinely disagree, partly over comparison basis (similarly-sized cities vs. all US communities) -- a real, mixed picture rather than a clean verdict, in the same spirit as the Katy, TX crime-data split documented elsewhere in this dataset.
- Real block-level variance exists within the city (roughly 1-in-62 odds in the southwest vs. 1-in-13 in the east, per CrimeGrade) -- check a specific address directly. No specific lower-rated area is named here per site policy.
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