Bend, OR has a B safety grade (71/100) with a violent crime rate of 169 per 100,000, 52% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 106,241 residents, Bend is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against OR and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Bend, OR is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 52% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bend, OR shows violent crime at 168.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,362 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bend's 168.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Central Point (171.9), Sweet Home (174.3), North Bend (160.5), Oakridge (159.9). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
At 168.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bend ranks 60 of 88 — above 28 of the 87 other Oregon cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -24.6% against the cohort median of 223.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 176.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 168.5 in 2024 (-4.7%). The highest observed value was 191.2 in 2023 and the lowest 154.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Bend's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 35.2 Census sq mi, Bend logged 41.1 property and 5.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bend's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 1,626 offenses; mix index 5,817).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Bend offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (35.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 1,447 | 1362 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,222 | 1150.2 |
| Burglary | 137 | 129 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 88 | 82.8 |
| Arson | 22 | 20.7 |
| Violent Crime | 179 | 168.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 128 | 120.5 |
| Rape | 24 | 22.6 |
| Robbery | 24 | 22.6 |
| Murder | 3 | 2.8 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 103,485 | 176.8 | 1940.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 104,833 | 183.1 | 1607.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 104,649 | 154.8 | 1622.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 105,099 | 191.2 | 1631.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 106,241 | 168.5 | 1362 |
Bend Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bend's 1,626 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Oregon cities closest to Bend in population. Their populations run from 55,784 to 109,452, against 106,241 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bend sits at 168.5/100K violent (grade B); the Oregon cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Bend at 168.5/100K violent and 1,362/100K property - matched below outside Oregon (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
168.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,362/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-11.9% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Bend reported 179 violent crimes and 1,447 property crimes, for a total of 1,626 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bend's violent crime rate decreased by 11.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.5%.
The most common crime type in Bend is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.2% of all reported crimes (1,222 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Bend's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Bend's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bend, OR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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