Broken Bow, OK has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 829 per 100,000, 135% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Broken Bow is a small municipal reporter (4,224 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with OK and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Broken Bow, OK carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 135% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Broken Bow, OK shows violent crime at 828.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,095.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 135% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 828.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Broken Bow ranks 16 of 300 — above 284 of the 299 other Oklahoma cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +290.1% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Broken Bow's 828.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lawton (820.3), Muldrow (802.1), Arkoma (858.4), Vian (862.1). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 686.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 828.6 in 2024 (+20.8%). The highest observed value was 828.6 in 2024 and the lowest 514.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Broken Bow'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 6.1 Census sq mi, Broken Bow logged 28.2 property and 5.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Broken Bow leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,577.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Broken Bow offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.1 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 | 173 | 4095.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 109 | 2580.5 |
| Burglary | 51 | 1207.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 307.8 |
| Arson | 4 | 94.7 |
| Violent Crime | 35 | 828.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 28 | 662.9 |
| Robbery | 4 | 94.7 |
| Rape | 3 | 71 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,081 | 686.1 | 5513.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,085 | 514.1 | 5189.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,270 | 702.6 | 6861.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,257 | 540.3 | 3570.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,224 | 828.6 | 4095.6 |
Broken Bow Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Broken Bow's 208 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 Oklahoma cities closest to Broken Bow in population. Their populations run from 3,837 to 4,531, against 4,224 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Broken Bow sits at 828.6/100K violent (grade F); the Oklahoma cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Broken Bow reported 35 violent crimes and 173 property crimes, for a total of 208 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Broken Bow's violent crime rate increased by 53.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 14.7%.
The most common crime type in Broken Bow is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.4% of all reported crimes (109 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Broken Bow is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Broken Bow's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Broken Bow, OK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Broken Bow is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (4,224 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.