County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Cape Girardeau County, MO
At 81,710 residents, Cape Girardeau County is a large county in Missouri. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Cape Girardeau County, MO reported 61 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cape Girardeau County, MO agencies reported 50 violent and 119 property offenses. That equals about 61 violent and 146 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
61/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cape Girardeau County, MO
Position in the state cohort
Cape Girardeau County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri counties
At 61.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cape Girardeau County ranks 59 of 77 — above 18 of the 76 other Missouri counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -52.5% 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 83.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 61.2 in 2024 (-26.5%). The highest observed value was 83.2 in 2020 and the lowest 41.6 in 2023. 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 29.6% of the 169 Part I offenses reported in Cape Girardeau County for 2024, against a median of 26.0% across comparable Missouri counties — a gap of 3.5 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
119
Burglary
43
Larceny-Theft
67
Motor Vehicle Theft
9
Arson
1
Violent Crime
50
Murder
0
Rape
5
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
44
Reporting Agency
Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Cape Girardeau County's crime figures on this page originate from Cape Girardeau 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 Cape Girardeau County in population. Their populations run from 59,574 to 88,842, against 81,710 here. Or launch the
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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.