Broken Arrow, OK has a B safety grade (67/100) with a violent crime rate of 223 per 100,000, 37% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Broken Arrow, OK Crime Rate & Safety
At 121,004 residents, Broken Arrow is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against OK and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Broken Arrow, OK carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 37% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Broken Arrow, OK shows violent crime at 223.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,200.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 37% 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.
B safety grade
223.1/100K violent
1200.8/100K property
-37% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Broken Arrow, OK
Comparable rate records
Broken Arrow's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Oklahoma cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Broken Arrow's 223.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Elk City (223.2), Spiro (228.1), Wilburton (217.9), Waurika (217.5). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 172.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 223.1 in 2024 (+29.6%). The highest observed value was 223.1 in 2024 and the lowest 152.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 77.6% of reported property offenses in Broken Arrow, against a cohort median of 66.1%. The remainder is burglary (193) and motor vehicle theft (132). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Broken Arrow sits mid-pack among comparable Oklahoma cities
At 223.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Broken Arrow ranks 146 of 300 — above 154 of the 299 other Oklahoma cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +5.1% against the cohort median of 212.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Broken Arrow'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.
Broken Arrow's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 63 Census sq mi, Broken Arrow logged 23.1 property and 4.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Broken Arrow's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 1,723 offenses; mix index 4,631).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (63 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-12.2%
1367.1 → 1200.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+7.1%
208.4 → 223.1/100K
Property offenses lead Broken Arrow's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs OK
Property Crime
1,453
1200.8
2008.3
Larceny-Theft
1,128
932.2
-
Burglary
193
159.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
132
109.1
-
Arson
3
2.5
-
Violent Crime
270
223.1
427.9
Aggravated Assault
214
176.9
-
Rape
42
34.7
-
Robbery
10
8.3
-
Murder
4
3.3
-
Broken Arrow Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Broken Arrow property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Broken Arrow Police Department
Reporting agency for Broken Arrow NIBRS-participating
Broken Arrow Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Broken Arrow's 1,723 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Oklahoma
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In 2024, Broken Arrow reported 270 violent crimes and 1,453 property crimes, for a total of 1,723 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Broken Arrow?
From 2023 to 2024, Broken Arrow's violent crime rate increased by 7.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.2%.
What is the most common crime in Broken Arrow?
The most common crime type in Broken Arrow is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.5% of all reported crimes (1,128 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Broken Arrow'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Broken Arrow, OK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.