Sunset Hills, MO has a A safety grade (82/100) with a violent crime rate of 78 per 100,000, 78% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Sunset Hills is a small municipal reporter (8,995 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MO and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Sunset Hills, MO carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 78% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sunset Hills, MO shows violent crime at 77.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,222.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 78% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Sunset Hills reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,995. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sunset Hills's 77.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lawson (79.3), La Plata (80.9), Ozark (81.1), Greenwood (81.2). 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
At 77.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sunset Hills ranks 205 of 272 — above 67 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -59.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 106.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 77.8 in 2024 (-27.0%). The highest observed value was 177.6 in 2021 and the lowest 77.8 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 6.0% of the 117 Part I offenses reported in Sunset Hills for 2024, against a median of 13.6% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 7.6 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 Sunset Hills'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.
Based on 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,995. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
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 9 Census sq mi, Sunset Hills logged 12.3 property and 0.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sunset Hills's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 117 offenses; mix index 6,727).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Sunset Hills offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 110 | 1222.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 95 | 1056.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 | 133.4 |
| Burglary | 3 | 33.4 |
| Arson | 1 | 11.1 |
| Violent Crime | 7 | 77.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 55.6 |
| Robbery | 2 | 22.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 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 | 8,445 | 106.6 | 1811.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,447 | 177.6 | 1846.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,053 | 121.5 | 2187.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,016 | 155.3 | 1508.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,995 | 77.8 | 1222.9 |
Sunset Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sunset Hills's 117 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 Sunset Hills in population. Their populations run from 8,727 to 9,215, against 8,995 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sunset Hills sits at 77.8/100K violent (grade A); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Sunset Hills reported 7 violent crimes and 110 property crimes, for a total of 117 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sunset Hills's violent crime rate decreased by 49.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.9%.
The most common crime type in Sunset Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.2% of all reported crimes (95 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Sunset Hills 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 Sunset Hills's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sunset Hills, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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