Richmond Heights, MO carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 14% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Richmond Heights, MO shows violent crime at 400.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 7,377.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 14% 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
400.6/100K violent
7377.3/100K property
+14% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Richmond Heights, MO
Comparable rate records
Richmond Heights's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Missouri cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Richmond Heights's 400.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Richland (403.0), St. Ann (406.5), Potosi (393.9), Union (393.7). 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
Richmond Heights reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri cities
At 400.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Richmond Heights ranks 64 of 272 — above 208 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +117.3% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 5.2% of the 699 Part I offenses reported in Richmond Heights for 2024, against a median of 13.6% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 8.5 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 89.0% of reported property offenses in Richmond Heights, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (56). 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 396.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 400.6 in 2024 (+1.1%). The highest observed value was 708.1 in 2023 and the lowest 386.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Richmond Heights'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.
Richmond Heights's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.3 Census sq mi, Richmond Heights logged 289.4 property and 15.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Richmond Heights's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 699 offenses; mix index 7,210).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.3 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
-43.4%
708.1 → 400.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-12.3%
8408.9 → 7377.3/100K
Property offenses lead Richmond Heights's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs MO
Property Crime
663
7377.3
1711
1971.6
Larceny-Theft
590
6565
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
56
623.1
-
-
Burglary
17
189.2
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
36
400.6
352
463.3
Aggravated Assault
26
289.3
-
-
Robbery
9
100.1
-
-
Rape
1
11.1
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Richmond Heights Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Richmond Heights 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
Richmond Heights Police Department
Reporting agency for Richmond Heights NIBRS-participating
Richmond Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Richmond Heights's 699 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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How many crimes were reported in Richmond Heights?
In 2024, Richmond Heights reported 36 violent crimes and 663 property crimes, for a total of 699 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Richmond Heights?
From 2023 to 2024, Richmond Heights's violent crime rate decreased by 43.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.3%.
What is the most common crime in Richmond Heights?
The most common crime type in Richmond Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 84.4% of all reported crimes (590 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Richmond Heights 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 Richmond Heights, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.