County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Buchanan County, MO
At 84,793 residents, Buchanan County is a large county in Missouri. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Buchanan County, MO reported 35 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Buchanan County, MO agencies reported 30 violent and 108 property offenses. That equals about 35 violent and 127 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
30 violent offenses
35/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Buchanan County, MO
Position in the state cohort
Buchanan County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri counties
At 35.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Buchanan County ranks 68 of 77 — above 9 of the 76 other Missouri counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -72.5% against the cohort median of 128.8. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 53.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 35.4 in 2024 (-33.3%). The highest observed value was 53.1 in 2020 and the lowest 22.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 21.7% of the 138 Part I offenses reported in Buchanan County for 2024, against a median of 26.5% across comparable Missouri counties — a gap of 4.8 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.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
108
Burglary
16
Larceny-Theft
64
Motor Vehicle Theft
28
Arson
2
Violent Crime
30
Murder
0
Rape
16
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
13
Reporting Agency
Buchanan County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Buchanan County's crime figures on this page originate from Buchanan County Sheriff's Office'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 Counties in Missouri
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.