Excelsior Springs, MO has a C safety grade (46/100) with a violent crime rate of 330 per 100,000, 6% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Excelsior Springs (10,621 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MO and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Excelsior Springs, MO carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 6% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Excelsior Springs, MO shows violent crime at 329.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,391.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 6% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 169.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 329.5 in 2024 (+94.5%). The highest observed value was 377.1 in 2022 and the lowest 151.2 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Excelsior Springs's 329.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are St. James (333.5), Jefferson City (333.6), Belton (333.9), Farmington (323.0). 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 329.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Excelsior Springs ranks 83 of 272 — above 189 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +78.8% 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 counts dominate Excelsior 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 10.8 Census sq mi, Excelsior Springs logged 23.4 property and 3.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Excelsior Springs's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 289 offenses; mix index 4,645).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Excelsior Springs offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 254 | 2391.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 189 | 1779.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 45 | 423.7 |
| Burglary | 20 | 188.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 35 | 329.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 24 | 226 |
| Rape | 8 | 75.3 |
| Robbery | 3 | 28.2 |
| 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 | 11,802 | 169.5 | 2541.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,908 | 151.2 | 1721.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,608 | 377.1 | 2224.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,579 | 274.1 | 2467.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,621 | 329.5 | 2391.5 |
Excelsior Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Excelsior Springs's 289 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 Excelsior Springs in population. Their populations run from 9,762 to 11,267, against 10,621 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Excelsior Springs sits at 329.5/100K violent (grade C); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Excelsior Springs at 329.5/100K violent and 2,391.5/100K property - matched below outside Missouri (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
329.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,391.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Excelsior Springs reported 35 violent crimes and 254 property crimes, for a total of 289 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Excelsior Springs's violent crime rate increased by 20.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.1%.
The most common crime type in Excelsior Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.4% of all reported crimes (189 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Excelsior Springs 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Excelsior Springs's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Excelsior Springs, 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. Excelsior Springs is scored in the mid-size municipal band (10,621 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.