St. John, MO has a F safety grade (22/100) with a violent crime rate of 609 per 100,000, 73% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
St. John is a small municipal reporter (6,405 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MO and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
St. John, MO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 73% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, St. John, MO shows violent crime at 608.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,951.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 73% 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 608.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, St. John ranks 31 of 272 — above 241 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +230.3% 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 St. John's 608.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Riverside (613.6), Branson West (598.8), Hillsdale (597.8), 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 902.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 608.9 in 2024 (-32.5%). The highest observed value was 902.2 in 2020 and the lowest 608.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.8% of the 164 Part I offenses reported in St. John for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 10.3 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 is 62.4% of reported property offenses in St. John, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (18) and motor vehicle theft (29). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate St. John'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 1.4 Census sq mi, St. John logged 87.8 property and 27.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
St. John leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,110.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
St. John offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.4 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 | 125 | 1951.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 78 | 1217.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 29 | 452.8 |
| Burglary | 18 | 281 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 39 | 608.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 33 | 515.2 |
| Robbery | 5 | 78.1 |
| Rape | 1 | 15.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 6,318 | 902.2 | 4083.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 6,299 | 746.2 | 2857.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,538 | 611.8 | 2615.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,451 | 620.1 | 2356.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,405 | 608.9 | 1951.6 |
St. John Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind St. John's 164 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 St. John in population. Their populations run from 6,156 to 6,573, against 6,405 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
St. John sits at 608.9/100K violent (grade F); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, St. John reported 39 violent crimes and 125 property crimes, for a total of 164 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, St. John's violent crime rate decreased by 1.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.2%.
The most common crime type in St. John is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.6% of all reported crimes (78 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: St. John 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 St. John's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 St. John, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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