Winona, MO carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 129% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Winona, MO shows violent crime at 807.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 706.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 129% 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.
F safety grade
807.3/100K violent
706.4/100K property
+129% vs U.S.
The verdict
Winona earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 129% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
F
PlainCrime safety grade
+129%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
5th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
706.4
property crimes per 100K
Based on 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 991. 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.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Winona, MO
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 77.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 807.3 in 2024 (+940.6%). The highest observed value was 1322.5 in 2023 and the lowest 77.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 53.3% of the 15 Part I offenses reported in Winona for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 39.9 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.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Winona reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 991. 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.
Position in the state cohort
Winona reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri cities
At 807.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Winona ranks 18 of 272 — above 254 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +337.9% 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
Winona's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Missouri cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Winona's 807.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Charleston (809.5), Matthews (803.2), Normandy (779.7), Piedmont (863.9). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 100.0% of reported property offenses in Winona, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Winona's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 991. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-39%
1322.5 → 807.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-30.6%
1017.3 → 706.4/100K
Winona's 2024 offense mix (violent and property)
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Violent Crime
8
807.3
352
Aggravated Assault
8
807.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Property Crime
7
706.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
7
706.4
-
Burglary
0
0
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
0
-
Arson
0
0
-
Winona Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Winona violent crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
807.3/100K↓39%vs 2023
Winona property crime rate trend
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
706.4/100K↓30.6%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
1,289
77.6
310.3
5
2021
Comparable
1,292
232.2
387
8
2022
Comparable
973
616.6
513.9
11
2023
Comparable
983
1322.5
1017.3
23
2024
Comparable
991
807.3
706.4
15
How Winona sits among MO peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Winona Police Department NIBRS-participating
Winona's crime figures on this page originate from Winona Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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.
Similar-Size Cities in Missouri
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Missouri cities closest to Winona in population. Their populations run from 837 to 1,085, against 991 here. Or use our
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These Missouri cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Winona's 807.3/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Winona has a violent crime rate of 807.3 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 706.4 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Winona, MO safe? ▼
Winona receives a safety grade of F (High Risk), with a safety score of 24/100. The violent crime rate is 129% above the national average and 74% above the Missouri average.
What is the population of Winona, MO? ▼
The reporting population for Winona is 991 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Winona? ▼
In 2024, Winona reported 8 violent crimes and 7 property crimes, for a total of 15 reported offenses.
How do Winona's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Winona recorded about one reported offense per 66 residents and one reported violent offense per 124 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Winona? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Winona's violent crime rate decreased by 39%, and the property crime rate decreased by 30.6%.
What is the most common crime in Winona? ▼
The most common crime type in Winona is aggravated assault, accounting for 53.3% of all reported crimes (8 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Winona's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Winona, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.