CrimeMetric

Crime in Manchester, Missouri

Major crime in Manchester is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 70% lower for persons crimes and 38% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
56
44% below the U.S. rate
49% below the Missouri rate
down 7.3% in a year
Persons crimes
30
70% below the U.S. rate
77% below the Missouri rate
down 1.4% in a year
Property crimes
62
38% below the U.S. rate
41% below the Missouri rate
down 7.9% in a year
Social disorder
40
60% below the U.S. rate
61% below the Missouri rate
down 5.3% 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 1.5 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Manchester 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 Manchester

The middle half of Manchester residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 14 and 71; the typical (median) resident's is 40. The citywide figure (56) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Manchester, 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. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5071.5%
  • 50–10014.4%
  • 100–20014.0%
  • 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.

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 6pm56
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am53
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm69
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am52
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.3% in a year; across Missouri it fell 11.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.3%MO -11.3%-15.6%MO -12.6%
Persons crimes-1.4%MO -4.6%-5.4%MO -1.8%
Property crimes-7.9%MO -13.0%-16.6%MO -15.6%
Social disorder-5.3%MO -6.5%-10.7%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

Manchester against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,356 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Manchester; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Laurel, MS16,652199
Hannibal, MO16,649101
Manchester, MO16,67656
Mastic, NY16,71629

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

Nearby places

Manchester has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Valley Park (2 mi), is 31% above Manchester's rate.

Des Peres3 mi324
Kirkwood4 mi83
Murphy6 mi60
Manchester56
Ballwin3 mi36

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

Questions about crime in Manchester

What are the most common crimes in Manchester?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 80 a year), other larceny (about 29 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 18 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 1.5 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. Manchester's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Manchester 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: 16,676. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100