Neighborhood bordering Sheffield with Lykins Community Resource Center, Lykins Square and Thomas K. Hanna Residence.
Search this neighborhoodLykins is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri with about 4,400 residents. Its edges follow Independence Avenue on the north, 12th Street and Truman Road on the south and Benton Boulevard and I-70 on the west. It also borders the Sheffield neighborhood to the east. Parks inside it include Lykins Square (5 acres) and Freeway Park (2.3 acres). Other places inside it include Lykins Community Resource Center, Thomas K. Hanna Residence, KCMO Fire Station No. 23 and Whittier Elementary.
By area, Lykins is zoned mostly Residential (R-2.5, R-1.5), Manufacturing District 1 (M1-5, M1-5/ICO) and Business District 3 (B3-2/ICO, B3-2). RideKC routes with a stop inside it include RideKC Route 9 9th Street, RideKC Route 21 Cleveland-Antioch and RideKC Route 12 12th Street. Permits issued here over the past year are mostly residential interior remodels, commercial renovations and site improvements. Run an address search on CivicScout to see the details for a specific property.
CivicScout counts Kansas City Police Department reports that carry a map location and open code cases inside the Lykins neighborhood outline. About 1 in 40 reports, and about 1 in 40 reports of serious violent crime, carries no map location and is not counted, so the counts understate crime, violent crime included, and cannot show that an area has little of it. Sex offenses are shown at block level, about 100 meters. Incidents handled by the airport, federal (VA) and neighboring cities’ police departments, such as Independence, Raytown, Gladstone and North Kansas City, do not appear.
View safety data →Permits issued in Lykins over the past year are mostly in the categories residential interior remodels, commercial renovations and site improvements.
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View new construction →Zoning in Lykins is mostly Residential, Manufacturing District 1 and Business District 3, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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