Crime in Liberty, Missouri
Major crime in Liberty is 39% below the U.S. rate per resident: 63% lower for persons crimes and 34% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.8% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 14% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Liberty 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 Liberty
The middle half of Liberty residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 21 and 46; the typical (median) resident's is 27. The citywide figure (61) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5079.7%
- 50–10015.4%
- 100–2002.8%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+2.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 16.8% 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.
Liberty against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
613 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Liberty; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Liberty has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Gladstone (7 mi), is 1.7 times Liberty's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Liberty
What are the most common crimes in Liberty?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 108 a year), other larceny (about 61 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 51 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 14% 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. Liberty's figures add up its 20 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Liberty's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 12.2% 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: 30,010. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Liberty, Missouri." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mo/liberty
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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