County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Phelps County, MO
Phelps County (44,638 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Missouri. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Phelps County, MO reported 67 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Phelps County, MO agencies reported 30 violent and 120 property offenses. That equals about 67 violent and 269 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
30 violent offenses
67/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Phelps County, MO
Position in the state cohort
Phelps County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri counties
At 67.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Phelps County ranks 58 of 77 — above 19 of the 76 other Missouri counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -47.8% 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 91.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 67.2 in 2024 (-26.8%). The highest observed value was 91.8 in 2020 and the lowest 65.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 20.0% of the 150 Part I offenses reported in Phelps County for 2024, against a median of 26.5% across comparable Missouri counties — a gap of 6.5 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.
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
120
Burglary
22
Larceny-Theft
74
Motor Vehicle Theft
24
Arson
2
Violent Crime
30
Murder
1
Rape
7
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
21
Reporting Agency
Phelps County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Phelps County's crime figures on this page originate from Phelps 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 Phelps County in population. Their populations run from 39,750 to 44,283, against 44,638 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.