County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Saline County, MO
Saline County (23,333 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Missouri. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Saline County, MO reported 214 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Saline County, MO agencies reported 50 violent and 68 property offenses. That equals about 214 violent and 291 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
214/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Saline County, MO
Position in the state cohort
Saline County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Missouri counties
At 214.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Saline County ranks 14 of 77 — above 63 of the 76 other Missouri counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +73.9% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 42.4% of the 118 Part I offenses reported in Saline County for 2024, against a median of 26.0% across comparable Missouri counties — a gap of 16.3 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 248.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 214.3 in 2024 (-13.8%). The highest observed value was 501.4 in 2021 and the lowest 214.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
68
Burglary
14
Larceny-Theft
44
Motor Vehicle Theft
10
Arson
2
Violent Crime
50
Murder
0
Rape
2
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
48
Reporting Agency
Saline County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Saline County's crime figures on this page originate from Saline 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 Saline County in population. Their populations run from 21,946 to 24,716, against 23,333 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.