Webster Groves, MO has a A safety grade (82/100) with a violent crime rate of 120 per 100,000, 66% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Webster Groves (23,271 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MO and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Webster Groves, MO carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 66% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Webster Groves, MO shows violent crime at 120.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 648.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 66% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 52.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 120.3 in 2024 (+128.6%). The highest observed value was 120.3 in 2024 and the lowest 52.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Webster Groves reported 28 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 23,271. 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 Webster Groves's 120.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ste. Genevieve (118.8), Savannah (118.2), Desloge (122.9), Brookfield (123.1). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 120.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Webster Groves ranks 181 of 272 — above 91 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -36.7% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 66.9% of reported property offenses in Webster Groves, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (19) and motor vehicle theft (31). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Webster Groves'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 28 reported violent incidents in a population of 23,271. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 5.9 Census sq mi, Webster Groves logged 25.5 property and 4.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Webster Groves leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,780.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Webster Groves offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.9 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 | 151 | 648.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 101 | 434 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 31 | 133.2 |
| Burglary | 19 | 81.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.3 |
| Violent Crime | 28 | 120.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 24 | 103.1 |
| Robbery | 3 | 12.9 |
| Rape | 1 | 4.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 22,798 | 52.6 | 789.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 22,885 | 65.5 | 865.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 23,598 | 114.4 | 1017 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,423 | 85.4 | 858.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,271 | 120.3 | 648.9 |
Webster Groves Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Webster Groves's 179 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 Webster Groves in population. Their populations run from 20,578 to 26,094, against 23,271 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Webster Groves sits at 120.3/100K violent (grade A); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Webster Groves at 120.3/100K violent and 648.9/100K property - matched below outside Missouri (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
120.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
648.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Webster Groves reported 28 violent crimes and 151 property crimes, for a total of 179 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Webster Groves's violent crime rate increased by 40.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 24.4%.
The most common crime type in Webster Groves is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.4% of all reported crimes (101 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Webster Groves figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Webster Groves's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Webster Groves, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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