Photo: Tristan Arbet · CC BY 4.0Frontenac reports less violent crime than most U.S. towns, but more property crime
Overall, Frontenac grades C+ for safety (#86 of 172 graded towns in Missouri): more crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Frontenac
4 of the 5 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 5 Missouri towns on Frontenac’s borders, 5 have a Safety Grade: Ladue (B+), Town and Country (B), Kirkwood (C+), Creve Coeur (C+), Des Peres (D). Neighbors ↓
A job center
Frontenac has 2,579 jobs based in town for 3,790 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Frontenac’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Frontenac’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Frontenac’s police reported 7 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.8 in the rest of Missouri and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Frontenac | Rest of Missouri | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.0 | 6.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.2 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 6.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.0 | 5.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Reported crime is falling
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.
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| Year | Frontenac property | Rest of Missouri property | Frontenac violent | Rest of Missouri violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 21.1 | 31.8 | 1.0 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 25.2 | 28.8 | 1.2 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 19.4 | 27.0 | 0.5 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 19.1 | 22.9 | 0.0 | 5.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 19 property crimes reported
And no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
79 crimes reported in 2025
0 violent and 79 property, as reported to the FBI by Frontenac’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Three people died in crashes on Frontenac’s roads in 2019–2023
Frontenac had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died. Most of these deaths (2 of 3) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
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 Frontenac’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Frontenac’s own rate (16.2) 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.
Frontenac and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontenac | C+ | 0.6 | 21.2 |
| Des Peres | D | 0.6 | 43.3 |
| Ladue | B+ | 0.7 | 8.2 |
| Kirkwood | C+ | 1.7 | 14.0 |
| Town and Country | B | 0.5 | 12.8 |
| Creve Coeur | C+ | 1.6 | 15.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Missouri towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontenac | C+ | 0.6 | 21.2 |
| Buffalo | B | 2.4 | 6.4 |
| El Dorado Springs | C | 2.8 | 18.1 |
| St. James | C− | 2.4 | 22.9 |
| Camdenton | C− | 3.1 | 26.0 |
| Woodson Terrace | D | 4.4 | 24.6 |
The five graded Missouri towns closest to Frontenac’s population (3,790), by grade.
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 Frontenac. 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 Frontenac’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,128 in 2025); our figure for Frontenac is 3,790 (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 Frontenac
Is Frontenac, MO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Frontenac reports more crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #86 of 172 in Missouri. Its police reported 0.6 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 Frontenac?
0.6 violent and 21.2 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 crime going up or down in Frontenac?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Is Frontenac safer than Des Peres?
Des Peres reports more crime per resident than Frontenac: Des Peres grades D for safety and Frontenac C+. Des Peres’s police reported 0.6 violent and 43.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Frontenac?
Frontenac’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Frontenac”. 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.