Vinita Park, MO has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1719 per 100,000, 388% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Vinita Park is a small municipal reporter (8,727 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MO and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Vinita Park, MO carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 388% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Vinita Park, MO shows violent crime at 1,718.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,271 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 388% 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 1718.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Vinita Park ranks 4 of 272 — above 268 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +832.5% 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 Vinita Park's 1718.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pagedale (1806.5), Country Club Hills (1621.1), Riverview (1864.7), Kansas City (1547.1). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 24.6% of the 610 Part I offenses reported in Vinita Park for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 11.1 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 62.8% of reported property offenses in Vinita Park, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (71) and motor vehicle theft (100). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1461.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1718.8 in 2024 (+17.6%). The highest observed value was 1718.8 in 2024 and the lowest 1063.2 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Vinita Park'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 0.8 Census sq mi, Vinita Park logged 589.7 property and 192.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Vinita Park leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,943.
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Vinita Park offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.8 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 | 460 | 5271 |
| Larceny-Theft | 289 | 3311.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 100 | 1145.9 |
| Burglary | 71 | 813.6 |
| Arson | 3 | 34.4 |
| Violent Crime | 150 | 1718.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 98 | 1123 |
| Robbery | 34 | 389.6 |
| Rape | 12 | 137.5 |
| Murder | 6 | 68.8 |
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 | 10,951 | 1461.1 | 4711.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,910 | 1063.2 | 4152.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,852 | 1242.7 | 5603.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,786 | 1240.6 | 6009.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,727 | 1718.8 | 5271 |
Vinita Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Vinita Park's 610 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 Vinita Park in population. Their populations run from 8,489 to 8,995, against 8,727 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Vinita Park sits at 1,718.8/100K violent (grade F); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Vinita Park reported 150 violent crimes and 460 property crimes, for a total of 610 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Vinita Park's violent crime rate increased by 38.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.3%.
The most common crime type in Vinita Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.4% of all reported crimes (289 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Vinita Park 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 Vinita Park's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Vinita Park, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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