Lee's Summit, MO has a B safety grade (65/100) with a violent crime rate of 149 per 100,000, 58% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Lee's Summit, MO Crime Rate & Safety
At 105,053 residents, Lee's Summit is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MO and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Lee's Summit, MO carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 58% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lee's Summit, MO shows violent crime at 149.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,294.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 58% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
149.4/100K violent
2294.1/100K property
-58% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lee's Summit, MO
Comparable rate records
Lee's Summit's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Missouri cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lee's Summit's 149.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Brentwood (149.6), Raymore (149.3), Advance (150.3), Park Hills (147.5). 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 6.1% of the 2,567 Part I offenses reported in Lee's Summit for 2024, against a median of 13.6% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 7.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 128.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 149.4 in 2024 (+16.2%). The highest observed value was 162.8 in 2023 and the lowest 128.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Lee's Summit sits mid-pack among comparable Missouri cities
At 149.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lee's Summit ranks 161 of 272 — above 111 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -21.4% against the cohort median of 190.0. 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 Lee's Summit'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Lee's Summit's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 63.9 Census sq mi, Lee's Summit logged 37.7 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lee's Summit's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 2,567 offenses; mix index 6,060).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (63.9 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
-8.2%
162.8 → 149.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
+4.4%
2198.2 → 2294.1/100K
Property offenses lead Lee's Summit's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,410
2294.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,966
1871.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
309
294.1
-
Burglary
135
128.5
-
Arson
3
2.9
-
Violent Crime
157
149.4
352
Aggravated Assault
115
109.5
-
Rape
31
29.5
-
Robbery
10
9.5
-
Murder
1
1
-
Lee's Summit Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Lee's Summit property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Lee's Summit Police Department
Reporting agency for Lee's Summit NIBRS-participating
Lee's Summit Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lee's Summit's 2,567 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
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In 2024, Lee's Summit reported 157 violent crimes and 2,410 property crimes, for a total of 2,567 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Lee's Summit?
From 2023 to 2024, Lee's Summit's violent crime rate decreased by 8.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.4%.
What is the most common crime in Lee's Summit?
The most common crime type in Lee's Summit is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.6% of all reported crimes (1,966 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Lee's Summit's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lee's Summit, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.