CrimeMetric

Crime in Chesterfield, Missouri

Major crime in Chesterfield is 45% below the U.S. rate per resident: 67% lower for persons crimes and 40% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.6% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
55
45% below the U.S. rate
50% below the Missouri rate
down 10.6% in a year
Persons crimes
33
67% below the U.S. rate
75% below the Missouri rate
down 11.0% in a year
Property crimes
60
40% below the U.S. rate
43% below the Missouri rate
down 10.6% in a year
Social disorder
42
58% below the U.S. rate
60% below the Missouri rate
down 10.9% in a year

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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Crime by type

Shoplifting stands out most, at 20% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Chesterfield for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Chesterfield

The middle half of Chesterfield residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 15 and 45; the typical (median) resident's is 22. The citywide figure (55) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Chesterfield, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5077.8%
  • 50–10012.1%
  • 100–2003.9%
  • 200–4004.4%
  • 400+1.7%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekend daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm65
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am39
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm73
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am43
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 10.6% in a year; across Missouri it fell 11.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-10.6%MO -11.3%-15.8%MO -12.6%
Persons crimes-11.0%MO -4.6%-2.9%MO -1.8%
Property crimes-10.6%MO -13.0%-17.4%MO -15.6%
Social disorder-10.9%MO -6.5%-8.1%MO -6.8%

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.

Similar-size places

Chesterfield against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

664 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Chesterfield; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Enid, OK49,809160
Mankato, MN49,601120
Los Banos, CA49,758107
Ceres, CA49,80188
Shakopee, MN49,90368
Chesterfield, MO49,82755

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Chesterfield has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Ballwin (4 mi), is 35% below Chesterfield's rate.

Des Peres7 mi324
Chesterfield55
Wildwood6 mi42
Ballwin4 mi36

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Chesterfield

What are the most common crimes in Chesterfield?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 190 a year), other larceny (about 117 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 62 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 20% above 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. Chesterfield's figures add up its 31 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Chesterfield has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 18.7% 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: 49,827. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Chesterfield, Missouri." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mo/chesterfield

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100