Clinton, MO has a F safety grade (12/100) with a violent crime rate of 738 per 100,000, 110% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Clinton is a small municipal reporter (9,486 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MO and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Clinton, MO carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 110% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Clinton, MO shows violent crime at 737.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,076.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 110% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 100.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 737.9 in 2024 (+632.9%). The highest observed value was 737.9 in 2024 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 737.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Clinton ranks 21 of 272 — above 251 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +300.3% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Clinton's 737.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are St. Joseph (728.6), Ferguson (712.1), North Kansas City (709.5), Normandy (779.7). 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 are 26.2% of the 267 Part I offenses reported in Clinton for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 12.8 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.
Property counts dominate Clinton'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 9.1 Census sq mi, Clinton logged 21.6 property and 7.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Clinton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 267 offenses; mix index 4,126).
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Clinton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.1 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 | 197 | 2076.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 157 | 1655.1 |
| Burglary | 26 | 274.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 14 | 147.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 70 | 737.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 62 | 653.6 |
| Rape | 7 | 73.8 |
| Robbery | 1 | 10.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,939 | 100.7 | 760.7 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 9,047 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,316 | 42.9 | 128.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,470 | 538.5 | 3009.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,486 | 737.9 | 2076.7 |
Clinton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Clinton's 267 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Clinton in population. Their populations run from 8,995 to 9,762, against 9,486 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Clinton sits at 737.9/100K violent (grade F); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Clinton reported 70 violent crimes and 197 property crimes, for a total of 267 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Clinton's violent crime rate increased by 37%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31%.
The most common crime type in Clinton is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.8% of all reported crimes (157 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Clinton 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 Clinton's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Clinton, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Clinton is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (9,486 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.