Crime in Missouri (2024)
Missouri agencies reported 148,699 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 28,429 violent crimes, 119,492 property crimes and 778 arsons, across 466 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 6,243,544 (Census estimates). A floor: Missouri agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 485 | 0.3% |
| Rape | 2,763 | 1.9% |
| Robbery | 3,207 | 2.2% |
| Aggravated assault | 21,974 | 14.8% |
| Burglary | 14,558 | 9.8% |
| Larceny-theft | 80,323 | 54.0% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 24,611 | 16.6% |
| Arson | 778 | 0.5% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (108 of Missouri's counties).
- Adair County
- Andrew County
- Atchison County
- Audrain County
- Barry County
- Barton County
- Bates County
- Benton County
- Bollinger County
- Boone County
- Buchanan County
- Butler County
- Caldwell County
- Callaway County
- Camden County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Carter County
- Cass County
- Cedar County
- Chariton County
- Christian County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Clinton County
- Cole County
- Cooper County
- Crawford County
- Dade County
- Daviess County
- DeKalb County
- Dent County
- Douglas County
- Dunklin County
- Franklin County
- Gasconade County
- Greene County
- Grundy County
- Harrison County
- Henry County
- Hickory County
- Howard County
- Howell County
- Iron County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Laclede County
- Lafayette County
- Lawrence County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Linn County
- Livingston County
- Macon County
- Madison County
- Maries County
- Marion County
- McDonald County
- Mercer County
- Miller County
- Mississippi County
- Moniteau County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Morgan County
- New Madrid County
- Newton County
- Nodaway County
- Oregon County
- Osage County
- Ozark County
- Pemiscot County
- Perry County
- Pettis County
- Phelps County
- Pike County
- Platte County
- Polk County
- Pulaski County
- Putnam County
- Ralls County
- Randolph County
- Ray County
- Reynolds County
- Ripley County
- Saline County
- Schuyler County
- Scott County
- Shannon County
- Shelby County
- St. Charles County
- St. Clair County
- St. Francois County
- St. Louis city
- St. Louis County
- Ste. Genevieve County
- Stoddard County
- Stone County
- Sullivan County
- Taney County
- Texas County
- Vernon County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
- Wright County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Police Department | 7,914 | 23,920 | 31,923 |
| St. Louis Police Department | 3,791 | 15,825 | 19,709 |
| Springfield Police Department | 2,009 | 7,136 | 9,174 |
| St. Louis County Police Department | 1,904 | 6,037 | 7,994 |
| Independence Police Department | 687 | 4,238 | 4,943 |
| Columbia Police Department | 453 | 3,021 | 3,504 |
| St. Joseph Police Department | 511 | 2,701 | 3,224 |
| Lee's Summit Police Department | 157 | 2,410 | 2,570 |
| Joplin Police Department | 300 | 2,206 | 2,533 |
| Jefferson County Sheriff's Office | 454 | 1,346 | 1,813 |
| Blue Springs Police Department | 144 | 1,496 | 1,641 |
| Raytown Police Department | 249 | 1,077 | 1,332 |
| Cape Girardeau Police Department | 254 | 1,001 | 1,261 |
| Grandview Police Department | 170 | 953 | 1,124 |
| Florissant Police Department | 173 | 929 | 1,106 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.