Photo: Rowen Hansen · CC BY-SA 4.0For property crime, Blue Springs trails 80% of U.S. towns per resident
The graded rate fell 23% from 2023 to 2025. Weighing it all, Blue Springs earns C for safety (#105 of 172 graded towns in Missouri), with more crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported over 2023 to 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 2.2 violent crimes and 21.7 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 5.8 and 26.3 in the rest of Missouri. By contrast, of the 3 towns on its borders with figures, 2 record less crime per resident.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of MO” is every other Missouri city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Blue Springs
2 of the 3 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 3 Missouri towns on Blue Springs’ borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Lake Lotawana (B+), Grain Valley (B−), Independence (D). Neighbors ↓
Among Missouri towns, closer to the middle
Missouri’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Blue Springs’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 39% of the 172 Missouri towns we grade, against 27% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Blue Springs’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.2) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Blue Springs property | Rest of Missouri property | Blue Springs violent | Rest of Missouri violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 21.7 | 32.0 | 2.1 | 6.5 |
| 2023 | 23.4 | 28.9 | 1.9 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 24.5 | 27.0 | 2.4 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 17.1 | 23.0 | 2.3 | 5.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Missouri.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Blue Springs | Rest of Missouri | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.1 | 6.5 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.9 | 6.0 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.4 | 6.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.3 | 5.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Blue Springs’ police reported 398 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.8 in the rest of Missouri and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Blue Springs per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
1,201 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
141 violent and 1,060 property, as reported to the FBI by Blue Springs’ police.
24 people died in crashes on Blue Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
Blue Springs had 20 fatal crashes in five years, in which 24 people died; 4 were pedestrians. 7 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 8.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Missouri towns of 25,000–100,000 people (6.9, 24 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Blue Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Springs | C | 2.2 | 21.7 |
| Independence | D | 4.4 | 26.1 |
| Lake Lotawana | B+ | 1.2 | 6.8 |
| Grain Valley | B− | 1.7 | 10.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Missouri towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Springs | C | 2.2 | 21.7 |
| St. Charles | B | 1.7 | 8.9 |
| St. Peters | B− | 2.0 | 10.9 |
| Florissant | C | 2.9 | 18.0 |
| Joplin | D | 5.4 | 42.6 |
| St. Joseph | D | 6.6 | 37.2 |
The five graded Missouri towns closest to Blue Springs’ population (61,632), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Blue Springs. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Blue Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (61,854 in 2025); our figure for Blue Springs is 61,632 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Blue Springs
Is Blue Springs, MO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Blue Springs reports more crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #105 of 172 in Missouri. Its police reported 2.2 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.8 in the rest of Missouri and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Blue Springs?
2.2 violent and 21.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Missouri reports 5.8 and 26.3; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Blue Springs in 2025?
Blue Springs’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Blue Springs safer than Independence?
Independence reports more crime per resident than Blue Springs: Independence grades D for safety and Blue Springs C. Independence’s police reported 4.4 violent and 26.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Blue Springs?
Blue Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Blue Springs”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.