St. Louis County Fraud

St. Louis County · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, St. Louis County police open data recorded 1,494 fraud incidents, 8.8% of all 16,954 incidents reported in the city that year and up 42.6% from 2024. So far in 2026, 1,067 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in St. Louis County by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)1,067——
20251,494—up 42.6%
20241,048——
2023 (partial year)1,053——
20221,047—down 2.3%
20211,072——

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 6,781 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Chesterfield 147 incidents
  2. Kirkwood 70 incidents
  3. Jennings 58 incidents
  4. Fenton 55 incidents
  5. Wildwood 40 incidents
  6. Creve Coeur 40 incidents
  7. Richmond Heights 39 incidents
  8. Maryland Heights 35 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in St. Louis County in 2025?

1,494, according to St. Louis County Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in St. Louis County?

Reported fraud was up 42.6% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 42.7% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: St. Louis County Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

Other crime types in St. Louis County

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