Elk City, OK has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 223 per 100,000, 37% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Elk City (11,201 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then OK and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Elk City, 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, Elk City, OK shows violent crime at 223.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,035.6 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.
Small-count caution
Elk City reported 25 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,201. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Elk City's 223.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Broken Arrow (223.1), Spiro (228.1), Wilburton (217.9), Stringtown (228.8). 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 155.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 223.2 in 2024 (+43.5%). The highest observed value was 223.2 in 2024 and the lowest 150.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 223.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Elk City ranks 145 of 300 — above 155 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 Elk City'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.
Based on 25 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,201. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 16.1 Census sq mi, Elk City logged 7.2 property and 1.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Elk City leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,776.
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Elk City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16.1 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 | 116 | 1035.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 79 | 705.3 |
| Burglary | 31 | 276.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 53.6 |
| Arson | 2 | 17.9 |
| Violent Crime | 25 | 223.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 14 | 125 |
| Rape | 8 | 71.4 |
| Robbery | 2 | 17.9 |
| Murder | 1 | 8.9 |
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 | 11,571 | 155.6 | 2661.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,326 | 150.1 | 1924.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,417 | 210.2 | 1532.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,179 | 214.7 | 1270.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,201 | 223.2 | 1035.6 |
Elk City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Elk City's 141 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 Elk City in population. Their populations run from 10,482 to 12,253, against 11,201 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Elk City sits at 223.2/100K violent (grade B); the Oklahoma cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Elk City at 223.2/100K violent and 1,035.6/100K property - matched below outside Oklahoma (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
223.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,035.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Elk City reported 25 violent crimes and 116 property crimes, for a total of 141 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Elk City's violent crime rate increased by 4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.5%.
The most common crime type in Elk City is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.0% of all reported crimes (79 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Elk City 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 Elk City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Elk City, OK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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