Coos Bay, OR has a F safety grade (8/100) with a violent crime rate of 627 per 100,000, 78% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Coos Bay (15,469 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then OR and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Coos Bay, OR is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 78% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Coos Bay, OR shows violent crime at 627.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,460.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 78% 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 627.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Coos Bay ranks 2 of 88 — above 86 of the 87 other Oregon cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +184.5% against the cohort median of 220.4. 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 Coos Bay's 627.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Portland (720.1), Salem (532.2), Lincoln City (497.0), Medford (491.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 518.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 627.1 in 2024 (+21.0%). The highest observed value was 957.6 in 2023 and the lowest 506.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 69.7% of reported property offenses in Coos Bay, against a cohort median of 81.7%. The remainder is burglary (147) and motor vehicle theft (62). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Coos Bay'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 10.6 Census sq mi, Coos Bay logged 64.9 property and 9.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Coos Bay's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 787 offenses; mix index 4,251).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Coos Bay offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.6 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 | 690 | 4460.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 481 | 3109.4 |
| Burglary | 147 | 950.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 62 | 400.8 |
| Arson | 10 | 64.6 |
| Violent Crime | 97 | 627.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 79 | 510.7 |
| Rape | 9 | 58.2 |
| Robbery | 8 | 51.7 |
| Murder | 1 | 6.5 |
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 | 16,403 | 518.2 | 5017.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 16,378 | 506.8 | 4475.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 15,871 | 617.5 | 5922.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 15,768 | 957.6 | 5435.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,469 | 627.1 | 4460.5 |
Coos Bay Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Coos Bay's 787 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 Coos Bay in population. Their populations run from 12,963 to 17,869, against 15,469 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Coos Bay sits at 627.1/100K violent (grade F); the Oregon cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Coos Bay at 627.1/100K violent and 4,460.5/100K property - matched below outside Oregon (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
627.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,460.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Coos Bay reported 97 violent crimes and 690 property crimes, for a total of 787 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Coos Bay's violent crime rate decreased by 34.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.9%.
The most common crime type in Coos Bay is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.1% of all reported crimes (481 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Coos Bay figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Coos Bay's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Coos Bay, OR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
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