Kennett, MO has a F safety grade (13/100) with a violent crime rate of 570 per 100,000, 62% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Kennett is a small municipal reporter (9,996 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MO and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Kennett, MO carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 62% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kennett, MO shows violent crime at 570.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,981.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 62% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 570.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kennett ranks 38 of 272 — above 234 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +209.3% 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 Kennett's 570.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Independence (571.2), Malden (576.7), Joplin (560.4), Houston (585.3). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 939.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 570.2 in 2024 (-39.3%). The highest observed value was 939.5 in 2020 and the lowest 434.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Kennett'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 Census sq mi, Kennett logged 56.8 property and 8.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kennett's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 455 offenses; mix index 5,212).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Kennett offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7 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 | 398 | 3981.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 320 | 3201.3 |
| Burglary | 61 | 610.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 17 | 170.1 |
| Arson | 10 | 100 |
| Violent Crime | 57 | 570.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 34 | 340.1 |
| Rape | 11 | 110 |
| Robbery | 11 | 110 |
| Murder | 1 | 10 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,005 | 939.5 | 5777.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,946 | 764.1 | 6082.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,139 | 434 | 3915.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,103 | 584 | 3672.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,996 | 570.2 | 3981.6 |
Kennett Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kennett's 455 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 Kennett in population. Their populations run from 9,377 to 10,263, against 9,996 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Kennett sits at 570.2/100K violent (grade F); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Kennett reported 57 violent crimes and 398 property crimes, for a total of 455 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kennett's violent crime rate decreased by 2.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 8.4%.
The most common crime type in Kennett is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.3% of all reported crimes (320 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Kennett 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 Kennett's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kennett, 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. Kennett is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (9,996 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.