Chillicothe, MO has a C safety grade (59/100) with a violent crime rate of 347 per 100,000, 1% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Chillicothe is a small municipal reporter (9,215 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MO and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Chillicothe, MO carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 1% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chillicothe, MO shows violent crime at 347.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 748.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 1% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 31.7% of the 101 Part I offenses reported in Chillicothe for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 18.2 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Chillicothe's 347.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Columbia (347.5), Buckner (350.3), Florissant (341.3), Hannibal (358.0). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 347.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chillicothe ranks 78 of 272 — above 194 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +88.4% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 62.3% of reported property offenses in Chillicothe, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (13) and motor vehicle theft (13). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 297.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 347.3 in 2024 (+16.6%). The highest observed value was 347.3 in 2024 and the lowest 98.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Chillicothe'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.
Across 7.1 Census sq mi, Chillicothe logged 9.7 property and 4.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Chillicothe leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,759.
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Chillicothe offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 69 | 748.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 43 | 466.6 |
| Burglary | 13 | 141.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 141.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 10.9 |
| Violent Crime | 32 | 347.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 24 | 260.4 |
| Rape | 7 | 76 |
| Robbery | 1 | 10.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,735 | 297.9 | 1468.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,865 | 248.2 | 1522.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,177 | 98.1 | 1111.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,120 | 339.9 | 1129.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,215 | 347.3 | 748.8 |
Chillicothe Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Chillicothe's 101 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Missouri cities closest to Chillicothe in population. Their populations run from 8,961 to 9,556, against 9,215 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Chillicothe sits at 347.3/100K violent (grade C); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Chillicothe reported 32 violent crimes and 69 property crimes, for a total of 101 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Chillicothe's violent crime rate increased by 2.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 33.7%.
The most common crime type in Chillicothe is larceny-theft, accounting for 42.6% of all reported crimes (43 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Chillicothe 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.
Small-city rate methodology for how Chillicothe's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Chillicothe, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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