Don't take the clickbait "top X lists" too seriously. The metropolitan St. Louis area is not some killhouse, it's just that the city is geophgrahically smaller then other major cities. The bad crime parts of the metrpolitan area are overrpresented in the city, which again, is a small part of the greater metroplitan area.
You missed the part about why the stats are that way. Obviously you don’t live in St. Louis, you live in the other 90% of the metro area that’s merely “St. Louis”.