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Missouri Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Missouri cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
469
Supported Missouri cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Pagedale
Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021.
15.7 / 1k
2 Wellston
Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021.
15.7 / 1k
3 Berkeley
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021.
14.3 / 1k
4 Woodson Terrace
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021.
14.3 / 1k
5 North Kansas City
Violent Crime has increased 3% since 2021.
11.1 / 1k
6 Ash Grove
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
10.7 / 1k
7 Fair Grove
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
10.7 / 1k
8 Fordland
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
10.7 / 1k
9 Rogersville
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
10.7 / 1k
10 Seymour
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
10.7 / 1k
11 Strafford
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
10.7 / 1k
12 Battlefield
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
10.7 / 1k
13 Willard
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
10.7 / 1k
14 Springfield
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
10.5 / 1k
15 Kansas City
Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2021.
10.3 / 1k
16 Marshfield
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
9.1 / 1k
17 Riverside
Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021.
8.4 / 1k
18 Raytown
Violent Crime has increased 245% since 2021.
6.9 / 1k
19 Riverview
Violent Crime has declined 45% since 2021.
6.6 / 1k
20 Bellefontaine Neighbors
Violent Crime has declined 45% since 2021.
6.6 / 1k
21 Glasgow Village
Violent Crime has declined 45% since 2021.
6.6 / 1k
22 Smithville
Violent Crime has declined 40% since 2021.
6.5 / 1k
23 Bel-Ridge
Violent Crime has declined 18% since 2021.
6.3 / 1k
24 Bellerive Acres
Violent Crime has declined 18% since 2021.
6.3 / 1k
25 Hillsdale
Violent Crime has declined 18% since 2021.
6.3 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Missouri cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.