Movato, an online real estate brokerage based in San Mateo, CA, has ranked Maryville as the 8th safest place to live in Missouri. The firm looked at places with at least 10,000 in population and then ranked them based on FBI crime statistics from 2012. According to the report “Maryville saw a total of just 228 crimes, of those 12 were considered violent and 216 were property crimes.” Maryville is also the highest ranked community on the list located outside the St. Louis metropolitan area. A full ranking can be found at http://www.movoto.com/mo/safest-places-in-missouri/.