County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Cole County, MO
At 77,279 residents, Cole County is a large county in Missouri. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Cole County, MO reported 40 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cole County, MO agencies reported 31 violent and 75 property offenses. That equals about 40 violent and 97 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
31 violent offenses
40/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cole County, MO
Position in the state cohort
Cole County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri counties
At 40.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cole County ranks 67 of 77 — above 10 of the 76 other Missouri counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -68.9% 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 53.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 40.1 in 2024 (-24.4%). The highest observed value was 63.4 in 2022 and the lowest 40.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 77.3% of reported property offenses in Cole County, against a cohort median of 61.7%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (6). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 29.2% of the 106 Part I offenses reported in Cole County for 2024, against a median of 26.0% across comparable Missouri counties — a gap of 3.2 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
75
Burglary
11
Larceny-Theft
58
Motor Vehicle Theft
6
Arson
3
Violent Crime
31
Murder
2
Rape
8
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
21
Reporting Agency
Cole County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Cole County's crime figures on this page originate from Cole 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.