Caruthersville, MO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 249% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Caruthersville, MO shows violent crime at 1,228.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,665.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 249% 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
1228.3/100K violent
3665.4/100K property
+249% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Caruthersville, MO
Position in the state cohort
Caruthersville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri cities
At 1228.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Caruthersville ranks 9 of 272 — above 263 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +566.4% 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.
Comparable rate records
Caruthersville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Missouri cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Caruthersville's 1228.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Springfield (1178.1), Moline Acres (1155.5), Jonesburg (1142.1), Butler (1359.0). 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 25.1% of the 251 Part I offenses reported in Caruthersville for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 11.7 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 1139.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1228.3 in 2024 (+7.8%). The highest observed value was 1477.4 in 2021 and the lowest 965.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Caruthersville'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Caruthersville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.2 Census sq mi, Caruthersville logged 36.4 property and 12.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Caruthersville leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,744.
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+74.1%
2105.1 → 3665.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+27.2%
965.6 → 1228.3/100K
Property offenses lead Caruthersville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs MO
Property Crime
188
3665.4
1711
1971.6
Larceny-Theft
138
2690.6
-
-
Burglary
39
760.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
11
214.5
-
-
Arson
3
58.5
-
-
Violent Crime
63
1228.3
352
463.3
Aggravated Assault
53
1033.3
-
-
Robbery
9
175.5
-
-
Murder
1
19.5
-
-
Rape
0
0
-
-
Caruthersville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Caruthersville 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Caruthersville: 1228 violent, 3665 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Savannah: 118 violent, 473 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ashland: 197 violent, 414 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ste. Genevieve: 119 violent, 455 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Osage Beach: 265 violent, 2606 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Desloge: 123 violent, 3174 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Platte City: 144 violent, 1032 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Herculaneum: 202 violent, 1233 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Waynesville: 439 violent, 952 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Caruthersville Police Department
Reporting agency for Caruthersville NIBRS-participating
Caruthersville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Caruthersville's 251 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 Caruthersville in population. Their populations run from 4,846 to 5,463, against 5,129 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Caruthersville reported 63 violent crimes and 188 property crimes, for a total of 251 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Caruthersville?
From 2023 to 2024, Caruthersville's violent crime rate increased by 27.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 74.1%.
What is the most common crime in Caruthersville?
The most common crime type in Caruthersville is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.0% of all reported crimes (138 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Caruthersville is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Caruthersville, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.