St. Louis, MO has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1367 per 100,000, 288% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 277,294 residents, St. Louis is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MO and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
St. Louis, MO carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 288% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, St. Louis, MO shows violent crime at 1,367.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,706.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 288% 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 1367.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, St. Louis ranks 7 of 272 — above 265 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +641.7% 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. Louis's 1367.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Butler (1359.0), Caruthersville (1228.3), Kansas City (1547.1), Springfield (1178.1). 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 2016.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1367.1 in 2024 (-32.2%). The highest observed value was 2016.3 in 2020 and the lowest 1367.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 59.8% of reported property offenses in St. Louis, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (2,273) and motor vehicle theft (4,090). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Share of the state cohort
The 19,616 Part I offenses reported here are 16.1% of the 121,760 reported across all 272 comparable Missouri cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 277,294 rather than as a uniform shift.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.3% of the 19,616 Part I offenses reported in St. Louis for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 5.9 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 St. Louis'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 61.7 Census sq mi, St. Louis logged 256.4 property and 61.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
St. Louis leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,112.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
St. Louis offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (61.7 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 | 15,825 | 5706.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 9,462 | 3412.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4,090 | 1475 |
| Burglary | 2,273 | 819.7 |
| Arson | 93 | 33.5 |
| Violent Crime | 3,791 | 1367.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2,788 | 1005.4 |
| Robbery | 692 | 249.6 |
| Rape | 161 | 58.1 |
| Murder | 150 | 54.1 |
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 | 298,422 | 2016.3 | 5904.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 295,536 | 1640.4 | 6109.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 286,053 | 1502.9 | 7372.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 280,108 | 1457.3 | 6477.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 277,294 | 1367.1 | 5706.9 |
St. Louis Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind St. Louis's 19,616 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. Louis in population. Their populations run from 61,096 to 170,527, against 277,294 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
St. Louis sits at 1,367.1/100K violent (grade F); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
St. Louis at 1,367.1/100K violent and 5,706.9/100K property - matched below outside Missouri (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,367.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
5,706.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-6.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, St. Louis reported 3,791 violent crimes and 15,825 property crimes, for a total of 19,616 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, St. Louis's violent crime rate decreased by 6.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.9%.
The most common crime type in St. Louis is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.2% of all reported crimes (9,462 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: St. Louis'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 (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how St. Louis's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 St. Louis, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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