Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Christian County, Missouri, has about 96,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Christian County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and one other agency. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Christian County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Christian County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Christian County
The Christian County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Christian County. It reported 316 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Christian County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Nixa, 26,352 residents: 200 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ozark, 23,248 residents: 476 arrests reported for 2025.
- Clever, 3,118 residents: 26 arrests reported for 2024.
- Sparta, 1,956 residents: 44 arrests reported for 2025.
- Billings, 1,183 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2025.
- Highlandville, 983 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2021.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The Springfield Police Department and the Republic Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Christian County, so their arrests are not broken out for Christian County here.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Christian County: Nixa Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Christian County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Ozark: 476 for 2025, 367 for 2024, 269 for 2023, 245 for 2022, 1,122 for 2020 and 1,145 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Christian County Sheriff's Office: 316 for 2025, 1,404 for 2020 and 1,888 for 2019; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Nixa: 200 for 2025, 243 for 2024, 245 for 2023, 223 for 2022, 213 for 2021 and 372 for 2020.
- Sparta: 44 for 2025, 27 for 2024, 36 for 2023, 31 for 2022, 43 for 2021 and 124 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Billings: 11 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 0 for 2020 and 1 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Clever: 26 for 2024, 100 for 2022, 80 for 2021 and 34 for 2019; 2020 and 2023 are missing months.
- Highlandville: 0 for 2021, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,047 arrests that year. The four of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 731 in 2025 against 641 in 2024, up 14 percent.
Through July 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 609 arrests, against 555 in the same months of 2025.
Clever reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Christian County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Christian County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 64 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 99 beds, and it ran at 169 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Christian County Sheriff's Office at ccso.christiancountymo.gov/inmates.php (page title: Christian County, MO Live Inmate List), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Missouri Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Christian County
An arrest in Christian County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Christian County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Christian County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.christiancountymo.gov, phone 417-582-5120); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at christiancountymo.gov/department/christian-county-prosecuting-attor...).
Statewide, Case.net is the Missouri courts' free statewide case search.
Missouri is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name, through the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Christian County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge research time and copying.
- An arrest by the Christian County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Nixa, Ozark, Clever, Sparta, Billings or Highlandville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Nixa Schools: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Christian County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.christiancountymo.gov, phone 417-582-5120.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Christian County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the eight cities in Christian County: Nixa, Ozark, Clever, Sparta, Billings and Highlandville. Fremont Hills and Saddlebrooke have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Christian County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Christian County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Christian County each year?
Ozark reported 476 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,047 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Christian County?
Look on the custody page of the Christian County Sheriff's Office at ccso.christiancountymo.gov/inmates.php. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Christian County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Christian County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Christian County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Missouri Sunshine Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Christian County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Christian County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Christian County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.