Crime in Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Major crime in Cape Girardeau is 22% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 15% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 11.0% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 4.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Cape Girardeau for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Cape Girardeau
The middle half of Cape Girardeau residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 125; the typical (median) resident's is 83. The citywide figure (122) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5032.1%
- 50–10028.7%
- 100–20022.4%
- 200–40013.6%
- 400+3.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 11.0% 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.
Cape Girardeau against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
211 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cape Girardeau; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Cape Girardeau has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Scott City (7 mi), is 54% below Cape Girardeau's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Cape Girardeau
What are the most common crimes in Cape Girardeau?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 303 a year), aggravated assault (about 155 a year) and burglary (about 126 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 4.4 times 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. Cape Girardeau's figures add up its 30 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Cape Girardeau's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 41.9% 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: 39,744. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cape Girardeau, Missouri." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mo/cape-girardeau
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