Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0Property crime per resident is lower in Owensville than in 75% of U.S. towns
In sum, crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Owensville at B (#39 of 172 graded towns in Missouri): less crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns. Year on year, 2.2 violent crimes and 5.9 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 Owensville
Among Missouri towns, higher
Missouri’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Owensville’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 77% of the 172 Missouri towns we grade, against 61% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Owensville has 2,165 jobs based in town for 2,802 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 Owensville’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Owensville’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Owensville | Rest of Missouri | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.1 | 6.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.1 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.9 | 6.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.4 | 5.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Owensville’s police reported 18 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 Owensville 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 | Owensville property | Rest of Missouri property | Owensville violent | Rest of Missouri violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8.7 | 31.8 | 1.1 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 4.3 | 28.8 | 2.1 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 7.9 | 27.0 | 2.9 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 5.4 | 22.9 | 1.4 | 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.
19 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.
4 violent and 15 property, as reported to the FBI by Owensville’s police.
No one died in a crash on Owensville’s roads in 2019–2023
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 Owensville’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Owensville’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Owensville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owensville | B | 2.2 | 5.9 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Missouri towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owensville | B | 2.2 | 5.9 |
| Canton | A | 0.1 | 5.4 |
| Lake Lotawana | B+ | 1.2 | 6.8 |
| East Prairie | B | 2.1 | 7.5 |
| Forsyth | B− | 2.0 | 12.6 |
| Strafford | C− | 3.5 | 21.3 |
The five graded Missouri towns closest to Owensville’s population (2,802), 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 Owensville. 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 Owensville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,774 in 2025); our figure for Owensville is 2,802 (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 Owensville
Is Owensville, MO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Owensville reports less crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #39 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 Owensville?
2.2 violent and 5.9 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.
Who polices Owensville?
Owensville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Owensville”. 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.