Harrisonville, MO carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 57% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Harrisonville, MO shows violent crime at 553.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,761.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
553.2/100K violent
1761.9/100K property
+57% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Harrisonville, MO
Comparable rate records
Harrisonville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Missouri cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Harrisonville's 553.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Joplin (560.4), Sedalia (545.0), Nevada (543.7), De Soto (537.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Harrisonville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri cities
At 553.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Harrisonville ranks 40 of 272 — above 232 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +200.1% 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
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 23.9% of the 226 Part I offenses reported in Harrisonville for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 10.4 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 86.6% of reported property offenses in Harrisonville, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (12) and motor vehicle theft (11). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 545.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 553.2 in 2024 (+1.4%). The highest observed value was 553.2 in 2024 and the lowest 361.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Harrisonville'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.
Harrisonville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.2 Census sq mi, Harrisonville logged 15.4 property and 4.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Harrisonville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 226 offenses; mix index 4,730).
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+9.7%
504.1 → 553.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-5.9%
1872.4 → 1761.9/100K
Property offenses lead Harrisonville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MO
Property Crime
172
1761.9
1971.6
Larceny-Theft
149
1526.3
-
Burglary
12
122.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
11
112.7
-
Arson
1
10.2
-
Violent Crime
54
553.2
463.3
Aggravated Assault
39
399.5
-
Rape
13
133.2
-
Murder
1
10.2
-
Robbery
1
10.2
-
Harrisonville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Harrisonville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Harrisonville Police Department
Reporting agency for Harrisonville NIBRS-participating
Harrisonville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Harrisonville's 226 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 Harrisonville in population. Their populations run from 9,377 to 10,263, against 9,762 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Harrisonville reported 54 violent crimes and 172 property crimes, for a total of 226 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Harrisonville?
From 2023 to 2024, Harrisonville's violent crime rate increased by 9.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.9%.
What is the most common crime in Harrisonville?
The most common crime type in Harrisonville is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.9% of all reported crimes (149 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Harrisonville 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 Harrisonville, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.