Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO has a F safety grade (6/100) with a violent crime rate of 945 per 100,000, 168% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO Crime Rate & Safety
Bellefontaine Neighbors (10,263 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MO and national benchmarks.
Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 168% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO shows violent crime at 945.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,747.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 168% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
945.1/100K violent
2747.7/100K property
+168% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO
Position in the state cohort
Bellefontaine Neighbors reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri cities
At 945.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bellefontaine Neighbors ranks 14 of 272 — above 258 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +412.7% against the cohort median of 184.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1950.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 945.1 in 2024 (-51.5%). The highest observed value was 1950.6 in 2020 and the lowest 945.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Bellefontaine Neighbors's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Missouri cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bellefontaine Neighbors's 945.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Raytown (864.1), Piedmont (863.9), Sikeston (1029.6), Charleston (809.5). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 25.6% of the 379 Part I offenses reported in Bellefontaine Neighbors for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 12.1 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 65.6% of reported property offenses in Bellefontaine Neighbors, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (18) and motor vehicle theft (79). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Bellefontaine Neighbors's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Bellefontaine Neighbors's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.4 Census sq mi, Bellefontaine Neighbors logged 64.1 property and 22 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bellefontaine Neighbors leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,382.
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-8%
1026.8 → 945.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-5.5%
2906.1 → 2747.7/100K
Property offenses lead Bellefontaine Neighbors's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
282
2747.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
185
1802.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
79
769.8
-
Burglary
18
175.4
-
Arson
2
19.5
-
Violent Crime
97
945.1
352
Aggravated Assault
88
857.4
-
Robbery
6
58.5
-
Murder
2
19.5
-
Rape
1
9.7
-
Bellefontaine Neighbors Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bellefontaine Neighbors property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department
Reporting agency for Bellefontaine Neighbors NIBRS-participating
Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bellefontaine Neighbors's 379 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Missouri
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Missouri cities closest to Bellefontaine Neighbors in population. Their populations run from 9,556 to 10,888, against 10,263 here. Or use our
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How many crimes were reported in Bellefontaine Neighbors?
In 2024, Bellefontaine Neighbors reported 97 violent crimes and 282 property crimes, for a total of 379 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bellefontaine Neighbors?
From 2023 to 2024, Bellefontaine Neighbors's violent crime rate decreased by 8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.5%.
What is the most common crime in Bellefontaine Neighbors?
The most common crime type in Bellefontaine Neighbors is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.8% of all reported crimes (185 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Bellefontaine Neighbors figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.