Maplewood, MO has a F safety grade (5/100) with a violent crime rate of 652 per 100,000, 85% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Maplewood is a small municipal reporter (7,971 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MO and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Maplewood, MO carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 85% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Maplewood, MO shows violent crime at 652.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 6,799.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 85% 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 652.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Maplewood ranks 27 of 272 — above 245 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +253.9% 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 Maplewood's 652.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bridgeton (651.4), Grandview (674.6), Winfield (675.3), Cape Girardeau (623.3). 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 531.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 652.4 in 2024 (+22.8%). The highest observed value was 652.4 in 2024 and the lowest 295.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 8.8% of the 594 Part I offenses reported in Maplewood for 2024, against a median of 13.6% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 4.9 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 Maplewood'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 1.6 Census sq mi, Maplewood logged 346.3 property and 33.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Maplewood's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 594 offenses; mix index 6,317).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Maplewood offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.6 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 | 542 | 6799.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 467 | 5858.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 39 | 489.3 |
| Burglary | 36 | 451.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 52 | 652.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 44 | 552 |
| Rape | 4 | 50.2 |
| Robbery | 4 | 50.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,096 | 531.1 | 5545.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,076 | 346.7 | 4977.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,117 | 295.7 | 5309.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,022 | 374 | 7728.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,971 | 652.4 | 6799.6 |
Maplewood Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Maplewood's 594 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 Maplewood in population. Their populations run from 7,647 to 8,446, against 7,971 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Maplewood sits at 652.4/100K violent (grade F); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Maplewood reported 52 violent crimes and 542 property crimes, for a total of 594 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Maplewood's violent crime rate increased by 74.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12%.
The most common crime type in Maplewood is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.6% of all reported crimes (467 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Maplewood 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 Maplewood's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Maplewood, 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. Maplewood is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (7,971 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.