Photo: Paul Sableman · CC BY 2.0Richmond Heights has more crime per resident than almost every U.S. town
The graded rate fell 27% from 2023 to 2025. Next door, 4 of 5 towns with figures record less crime per resident. On top of that, the Safety Grade comes out at D−, drawn from crimes Richmond Heights’ police reported through 2023 to 2025: #167 of 172 graded towns in Missouri. For every 1,000 residents, 5.2 violent crimes and 73.2 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of Missouri, the figures are 5.8 and 26.1.
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 Richmond Heights
4 of the 5 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 5 Missouri towns on Richmond Heights’ borders, 5 have a Safety Grade: Ladue (B+), Clayton (B+), Brentwood (D), Maplewood (D−), St. Louis (D−). Neighbors ↓
A job center
Richmond Heights has 11,571 jobs based in town for 9,093 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 Richmond Heights’ 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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Richmond Heights property | Rest of Missouri property | Richmond Heights violent | Rest of Missouri violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 66.7 | 31.7 | 5.8 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 84.1 | 28.7 | 7.0 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 73.8 | 26.9 | 4.0 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 61.6 | 22.8 | 4.6 | 5.4 |
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.
Crime in Richmond Heights 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 5 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Richmond Heights | Rest of Missouri | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.8 | 6.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 7.0 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.6 | 5.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Richmond Heights’ police reported 141 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 5.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.8 in the rest of Missouri and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
600 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.
42 violent and 558 property, as reported to the FBI by Richmond Heights’ police.
Three people died in crashes on Richmond Heights’s roads in 2019–2023
Richmond Heights had 3 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 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (7.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Richmond Heights’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Richmond Heights’s own rate (6.6) 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.
Richmond Heights and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Missouri towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond Heights | D− | 5.2 | 73.2 |
| Pleasant Hill | B+ | 1.1 | 6.6 |
| Olivette | B | 0.8 | 10.1 |
| Sunset Hills | B− | 1.1 | 13.4 |
| Chillicothe | B− | 3.0 | 7.8 |
| Des Peres | D | 0.6 | 43.3 |
The five graded Missouri towns closest to Richmond Heights’ population (9,093), 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 Richmond Heights. 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 Richmond Heights’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (9,052 in 2025); our figure for Richmond Heights is 9,093 (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 Richmond Heights
Is Richmond Heights, MO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Richmond Heights reports more crime per resident than 99% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade and #167 of 172 in Missouri. Its police reported 5.2 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 Richmond Heights?
5.2 violent and 73.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Missouri reports 5.8 and 26.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Richmond Heights safer than Brentwood?
Brentwood reports less crime per resident than Richmond Heights: Brentwood grades D for safety and Richmond Heights D−. Brentwood’s police reported 1.6 violent and 39.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Richmond Heights?
Richmond Heights’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Richmond Heights”. 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.