Crime in Jefferson City, Missouri
Major crime in Jefferson City is about the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.8% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Jefferson City 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 Jefferson City
The middle half of Jefferson City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 40 and 107; the typical (median) resident's is 63. The citywide figure (98) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5034.4%
- 50–10036.8%
- 100–20016.6%
- 200–4008.5%
- 400+3.7%
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 fell 13.8% 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.
Jefferson City against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
324 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Jefferson City; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Jefferson City 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, Holts Summit (6 mi), is 74% below Jefferson City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Jefferson City
What are the most common crimes in Jefferson City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 436 a year), aggravated assault (about 88 a year) and shoplifting (about 73 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 2.6 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. Jefferson City's figures add up its 40 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Jefferson City has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 9.9% 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: 45,876. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Jefferson City, Missouri." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mo/jefferson-city
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