Photo: Paul Sableman · CC BY 2.0Crystal City records less property crime per head than 86% of U.S. towns
Its police logs show 1.1 violent crimes and 3.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Missouri the numbers are 5.8 and 26.2. All told, Crystal City grades A− for safety (#10 of 172 graded towns in Missouri): less crime per resident than 80% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Both towns on its borders with figures record more 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 Crystal City
Crystal City reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 2 Missouri towns on Crystal City’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Herculaneum (B−), Festus (B−). Neighbors ↓
Among Missouri towns, higher
Missouri’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Crystal City’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 94% of the 172 Missouri towns we grade, against 80% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Crystal City has 3,233 jobs based in town for 4,694 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Crystal City’s 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 lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Crystal City | Rest of Missouri | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.5 | 6.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.1 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.1 | 6.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.3 | 5.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Crystal City’s police reported 16 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.1 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 Crystal City 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Crystal City property | Rest of Missouri property | Crystal City violent | Rest of Missouri violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8.1 | 31.9 | 1.5 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 2.8 | 28.8 | 1.1 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 4.0 | 27.0 | 1.1 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 4.5 | 22.9 | 1.3 | 5.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Missouri.
27 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.
6 violent and 21 property, as reported to the FBI by Crystal City’s police.
Two people died in crashes on Crystal City’s roads in 2019–2023
Crystal City had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for Missouri towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (7.2 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Crystal City’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Crystal City’s own rate (8.5) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Crystal City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal City | A− | 1.1 | 3.8 |
| Festus | B− | 1.7 | 11.2 |
| Herculaneum | B− | 1.5 | 11.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Missouri towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal City | A− | 1.1 | 3.8 |
| Centralia | B+ | 0.5 | 9.9 |
| Rock Hill | B | 2.2 | 7.5 |
| Mountain Grove | B− | 2.0 | 12.4 |
| Salem | C | 2.7 | 17.6 |
| Charleston | D | 8.5 | 17.9 |
The five graded Missouri towns closest to Crystal City’s population (4,694), 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 Crystal City. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Crystal City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,695 in 2025); our figure for Crystal City is 4,694 (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 Crystal City
Is Crystal City, MO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Crystal City reports less crime per resident than 80% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #10 of 172 in Missouri. Its police reported 1.1 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 Crystal City?
1.1 violent and 3.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Missouri reports 5.8 and 26.2; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Crystal City safer than Festus?
Festus reports more crime per resident than Crystal City: Festus grades B− for safety and Crystal City A−. Festus’s police reported 1.7 violent and 11.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Crystal City?
Crystal City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Crystal City”. 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.