County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Franklin County, MO
At 104,682 residents, Franklin County is a large county in Missouri. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Franklin County, MO reported 27 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Franklin County, MO agencies reported 28 violent and 186 property offenses. That equals about 27 violent and 178 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
28 violent offenses
27/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Franklin County, MO
Position in the state cohort
Franklin County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri counties
At 26.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Franklin County ranks 73 of 77 — above 4 of the 76 other Missouri counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -79.2% 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.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Franklin County reported 28 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 104,682. 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 13.1% of the 214 Part I offenses reported in Franklin County for 2024, against a median of 26.5% across comparable Missouri counties — a gap of 13.4 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 40.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 26.7 in 2024 (-33.3%). The highest observed value was 46.8 in 2021 and the lowest 22.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 53.8% of reported property offenses in Franklin County, against a cohort median of 61.9%. The remainder is burglary (31) and motor vehicle theft (55). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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
186
Burglary
31
Larceny-Theft
100
Motor Vehicle Theft
55
Arson
4
Violent Crime
28
Murder
0
Rape
4
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
24
Reporting Agency
Franklin County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Franklin County's crime figures on this page originate from Franklin 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.