CrimeMetric

Crime in Sullivan, Missouri

Major crime in Sullivan is 2.2 times the U.S. rate per resident: 33% higher for persons crimes and 2.4 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.1% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
219
2.2 times the U.S. rate
2.0 times the Missouri rate
down 7.1% in a year
Persons crimes
133
33% above the U.S. rate
about the Missouri rate
down 4.0% in a year
Property crimes
237
2.4 times the U.S. rate
2.3 times the Missouri rate
down 7.5% in a year
Social disorder
214
2.1 times the U.S. rate
2.0 times the Missouri rate
down 5.6% 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 5.4 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Sullivan 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 Sullivan

The middle half of Sullivan residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 95 and 269; the typical (median) resident's is 121. The citywide figure (219) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Sullivan, 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.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10039.1%
  • 100–20030.2%
  • 200–40018.3%
  • 400+12.3%

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 6pm215
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am204
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm257
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am222
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.1% in a year; across Missouri it fell 11.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.1%MO -11.3%-14.6%MO -12.6%
Persons crimes-4.0%MO -4.6%-1.2%MO -1.8%
Property crimes-7.5%MO -13.0%-16.2%MO -15.6%
Social disorder-5.6%MO -6.5%-8.7%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

Sullivan against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

91 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sullivan; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

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

Nearby places

Sullivan has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, St. Clair (14 mi), is 62% below Sullivan's rate.

Sullivan219
De Soto33 mi171
Cuba17 mi115
Union17 mi112
St. James29 mi96
Washington24 mi87
St. Clair14 mi84
Pacific28 mi59
Eureka33 mi42

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

Questions about crime in Sullivan

What are the most common crimes in Sullivan?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 135 a year), other larceny (about 82 a year) and aggravated assault (about 26 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 5.4 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. Sullivan's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Sullivan has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 42.3% 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: 7,926. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100