The Belton/Raymore area is basically a suburb of KC and fairly busy and higher posulation, South of that it's all small towns and villages. As far as "bad" areas, there are a lot of places that are impoverished and remote which attracts a lot of drug activity, for example, I live in a town of 1500 people and the house next door to me was a meth lab years before we moved here; a house down the road exploded one day because meth lab, and a few others too. Lots of meth labs, this place.
When I first moved here, one of my kc friends said "it's like someone took the 'hood, sat it in a field and filled it up with scary white people with guns and meth!" I would have to agree with their assessment, lol.