Crime in Bethany, Missouri
Major crime in Bethany is 55% below the U.S. rate per resident: 65% lower for persons crimes and 53% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Every crime type in Bethany is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bethany for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Bethany
Bethany is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 28; the middle half of residents live where it is between 28 and 66.
- 0–5053.9%
- 50–10046.1%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.2% in a year; across Missouri it fell 11.3%
Change in expected crimes, with Missouri as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Bethany against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,134 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bethany; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bethany has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Trenton (26 mi), is 24% above Bethany's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bethany
What are the most common crimes in Bethany?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 8 a year), shoplifting (about 4 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 7% below the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Bethany's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bethany has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 2,847. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bethany, Missouri." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mo/bethany
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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