Blue Springs, MO has a C safety grade (55/100) with a violent crime rate of 236 per 100,000, 33% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Blue Springs, MO Crime Rate & Safety
At 61,096 residents, Blue Springs is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MO and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Blue Springs, MO carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 33% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Blue Springs, MO shows violent crime at 235.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,448.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
235.7/100K violent
2448.6/100K property
-33% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Blue Springs, MO
Comparable rate records
Blue Springs's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Missouri cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Blue Springs's 235.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Macon (236.0), Hollister (234.4), Woodson Terrace (234.1), Bonne Terre (233.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Blue Springs sits mid-pack among comparable Missouri cities
At 235.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Blue Springs ranks 108 of 272 — above 164 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +27.9% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 8.8% of the 1,640 Part I offenses reported in Blue Springs for 2024, against a median of 13.6% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 4.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 211.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 235.7 in 2024 (+11.3%). The highest observed value was 235.7 in 2024 and the lowest 188.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Blue Springs'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Blue Springs's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 22.8 Census sq mi, Blue Springs logged 65.7 property and 6.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Blue Springs's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 1,640 offenses; mix index 5,555).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.8 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
+24.9%
188.7 → 235.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
+4.8%
2337.4 → 2448.6/100K
Property offenses lead Blue Springs's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,496
2448.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,198
1960.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
193
315.9
-
Burglary
105
171.9
-
Arson
1
1.6
-
Violent Crime
144
235.7
352
Aggravated Assault
98
160.4
-
Rape
30
49.1
-
Robbery
13
21.3
-
Murder
3
4.9
-
Blue Springs Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Blue Springs property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Blue Springs Police Department
Reporting agency for Blue Springs NIBRS-participating
Blue Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Blue Springs's 1,640 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 Blue Springs in population. Their populations run from 42,561 to 72,143, against 61,096 here. Or use our
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Blue Springs at 235.7/100K violent and 2,448.6/100K property - matched below outside Missouri (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Blue Springs reported 144 violent crimes and 1,496 property crimes, for a total of 1,640 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Blue Springs?
From 2023 to 2024, Blue Springs's violent crime rate increased by 24.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.8%.
What is the most common crime in Blue Springs?
The most common crime type in Blue Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.0% of all reported crimes (1,198 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Blue Springs's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Blue Springs, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.