County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led

Callaway County, MO

Callaway County (44,283 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Missouri. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.

Data updated 2026-08-24

137
Property offenses
50
Violent offenses
187
Total · 2024

Callaway County, MO reported 113 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Callaway County, MO agencies reported 50 violent and 137 property offenses. That equals about 113 violent and 309 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
  • 50 violent offenses
  • 113/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Callaway County, MO

Position in the state cohort

Callaway County sits mid-pack among comparable Missouri counties

At 112.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Callaway County ranks 44 of 77 — above 33 of the 76 other Missouri counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -12.3% 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 higher

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 106.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 112.9 in 2024 (+6.4%). The highest observed value was 158.1 in 2021 and the lowest 106.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county

Category Count
Property Crime 137
Burglary 30
Larceny-Theft 95
Motor Vehicle Theft 12
Arson 0
Violent Crime 50
Murder 0
Rape 6
Robbery 1
Aggravated Assault 43

Reporting Agency

Callaway County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Callaway County's crime figures on this page originate from Callaway 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

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Missouri counties closest to Callaway County in population. Their populations run from 39,750 to 44,638, against 44,283 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Callaway County

Similar violent rate (~113/100K)

Similar property rate (~309/100K)

ZIP Codes in Callaway County

State atlas: Missouri · Compare · Rankings

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.

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