Photo: Paul Sableman · CC BY 2.0Moline Acres reports more crime per resident than 91% of U.S. towns
Violent crime here is higher than in 96% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 75%. On top of that, on the record of crimes Moline Acres’ police reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes D for safety. Year on year, 8.1 violent crimes and 18.7 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 5.8 and 26.2 in the rest of Missouri.
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 Moline Acres
Moline Acres reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 2 Missouri towns on Moline Acres’ borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Bellefontaine Neighbors (D). Castle Point is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Moline Acres’ 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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Moline Acres | Rest of Missouri | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.2 | 6.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 11.6 | 6.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 7.2 | 5.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Moline Acres’ police reported 51 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 8.1 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 Moline Acres 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 7 violent crimes, 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 | Moline Acres property | Rest of Missouri property | Moline Acres violent | Rest of Missouri violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.9 | 31.8 | 5.2 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 22.5 | 28.8 | 5.7 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 25.0 | 27.0 | 11.6 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 8.6 | 22.9 | 7.2 | 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.
33 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.
15 violent and 18 property, as reported to the FBI by Moline Acres’ police.
10 people died in crashes on Moline Acres’s roads in 2019–2023
Moline Acres had 10 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 3 were pedestrians.
That is 70.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Missouri towns of 2,500–5,000 people (7.2, 108 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.
Moline Acres and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moline Acres | D | 8.1 | 18.7 |
| Bellefontaine Neighbors | D | 8.9 | 27.9 |
| Castle Point | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Castle Point is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Missouri towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moline Acres | D | 8.1 | 18.7 |
| Seymour | B+ | 1.4 | 7.3 |
| Willow Springs | B | 1.5 | 7.6 |
| Sparta | B | 2.4 | 6.1 |
| Hermann | B | 1.8 | 8.8 |
| Noel | B− | 2.4 | 7.8 |
The five graded Missouri towns closest to Moline Acres’ population (2,093), 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 Moline Acres. 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 Moline Acres’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,089 in 2025); our figure for Moline Acres is 2,093 (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 Moline Acres
Is Moline Acres, MO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Moline Acres reports more crime per resident than 91% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade. Its police reported 8.1 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 Moline Acres?
8.1 violent and 18.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Missouri reports 5.8 and 26.2; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Moline Acres safer than Bellefontaine Neighbors?
Bellefontaine Neighbors reports more crime per resident than Moline Acres: Bellefontaine Neighbors grades D for safety and Moline Acres D. Bellefontaine Neighbors’s police reported 8.9 violent and 27.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Moline Acres?
Moline Acres’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Moline Acres”. 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.