Rott School · Photo: LittleT889 · CC BY-SA 4.0On violent crime, Sunset Hills has a lower rate per resident than 65% of U.S. towns
The overall Safety Grade is B− (#59 of 172 graded towns in Missouri), which means close to the middle of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Neither of the two towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Violence and property crime split as 1.1 violent crimes and 13.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 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 Sunset Hills
Sunset Hills reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 4 Missouri towns on Sunset Hills’ borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Crestwood (B−), Kirkwood (C+). Fenton has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Sappington is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Neighbors ↓
Among Missouri towns, higher
Missouri’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Sunset Hills’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 66% of the 172 Missouri towns we grade, against 52% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Sunset Hills has 10,455 jobs based in town for 9,075 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 Sunset Hills’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Sunset Hills’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (13.4) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) 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 | Sunset Hills | Rest of Missouri | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.2 | 6.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.6 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.8 | 6.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.0 | 5.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Sunset Hills’ police reported 30 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 Sunset Hills 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 | Sunset Hills property | Rest of Missouri property | Sunset Hills violent | Rest of Missouri violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 21.7 | 31.8 | 1.2 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 15.1 | 28.8 | 1.6 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 12.2 | 27.0 | 0.8 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 12.8 | 22.9 | 1.0 | 5.5 |
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.
125 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.
9 violent and 116 property, as reported to the FBI by Sunset Hills’ police.
13 people died in crashes on Sunset Hills’s roads in 2019–2023
Sunset Hills had 13 fatal crashes in five years, in which 13 people died; 3 were pedestrians. 5 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 28.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Missouri towns of 5,000–25,000 people (7.6, 123 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.
Sunset Hills and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset Hills | B− | 1.1 | 13.4 |
| Crestwood | B− | 1.1 | 14.2 |
| Kirkwood | C+ | 1.7 | 14.0 |
| Fenton | — | — | — |
| Sappington | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Fenton has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Sappington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset Hills | B− | 1.1 | 13.4 |
| Pleasant Hill | B+ | 1.1 | 6.6 |
| Olivette | B | 0.8 | 10.1 |
| Chillicothe | B− | 3.0 | 7.8 |
| Des Peres | D | 0.6 | 43.3 |
| Richmond Heights | D− | 5.2 | 73.2 |
The five graded Missouri towns closest to Sunset Hills’ population (9,075), 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 Sunset Hills. 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 Sunset Hills’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (9,078 in 2025); our figure for Sunset Hills is 9,075 (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 Sunset Hills
Is Sunset Hills, MO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Sunset Hills reports less crime per resident than 52% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #59 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 Sunset Hills?
1.1 violent and 13.4 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 Sunset Hills safer than Crestwood?
Crestwood reports more crime per resident than Sunset Hills: Crestwood grades B− for safety and Sunset Hills B−. Crestwood’s police reported 1.1 violent and 14.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Sunset Hills?
Sunset Hills’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Sunset Hills”. 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.