Crime rate & statistics
St. Louis Crime Rate & Safety Statistics
How the City of St. Louis compares to national benchmarks, including the violent-crime figures it's known for.
Key indices
St. Louis crime at a glance
Index values are scaled so that 100 equals the U.S. average.
Your odds
Estimated victimization risk
Calibrated against national benchmark rates and expressed as everyday odds.
Trend
Is crime rising or falling in St. Louis?
Reported incidents per month over the most recent year of data.
Context
How to read these numbers
The City of St. Louis posts violent crime rates that rank among the highest of major U.S. cities, a pattern driven heavily by a concentration of incidents in north-side neighborhoods. Property crime is also elevated. But citywide rates can mislead, because much of the violence is geographically concentrated rather than evenly spread.
We translate St. Louis's reported incidents into estimated rates per 100,000 residents, then express them as everyday odds — for example, an approximate “1 in N” annual chance for a household. The index is anchored so 100 equals the national average, and each area receives a letter grade on an A-to-F curve calibrated across cities nationwide.