County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Jefferson County, MO
At 226,739 residents, Jefferson County is a large county in Missouri. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Jefferson County, MO reported 200 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jefferson County, MO agencies reported 454 violent and 1,346 property offenses. That equals about 200 violent and 594 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
454 violent offenses
200/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Jefferson County, MO
Position in the state cohort
Jefferson County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri counties
At 200.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jefferson County ranks 18 of 77 — above 59 of the 76 other Missouri counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +62.4% against the cohort median of 123.3. 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 234.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 200.2 in 2024 (-14.7%). The highest observed value was 235.5 in 2023 and the lowest 200.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
1,346
Burglary
250
Larceny-Theft
876
Motor Vehicle Theft
220
Arson
13
Violent Crime
454
Murder
5
Rape
36
Robbery
11
Aggravated Assault
402
Reporting Agency
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Jefferson County's crime figures on this page originate from Jefferson 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 Jefferson County in population. Their populations run from 106,718 to 298,915, against 226,739 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.