Hermiston, OR has a C safety grade (40/100) with a violent crime rate of 318 per 100,000, 10% below the national average.
Hermiston (19,504 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then OR and national benchmarks.
Hermiston, OR carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 10% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hermiston, OR shows violent crime at 317.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,225 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 10% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
The verdict
Hermiston earns a C safety grade: violent crime runs 10% below the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hermiston's 317.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Eugene (317.9), Hillsboro (317.7), Tigard (317.3), Gervais (316.1). 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 212.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 317.9 in 2024 (+49.7%). The highest observed value was 317.9 in 2024 and the lowest 212.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 317.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hermiston ranks 19 of 88 — above 69 of the 87 other Oregon cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +44.2% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 90.3% of reported property offenses in Hermiston, against a cohort median of 81.5%. The remainder is burglary (30) and motor vehicle theft (31). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Hermiston'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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 629 | 3225 |
| Larceny-Theft | 568 | 2912.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 31 | 158.9 |
| Burglary | 30 | 153.8 |
| Arson | 7 | 35.9 |
| Violent Crime | 62 | 317.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 45 | 230.7 |
| Rape | 9 | 46.1 |
| Robbery | 6 | 30.8 |
| Murder | 2 | 10.3 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 17,896 | 212.3 | 2486.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 17,898 | 284.9 | 2838.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 19,438 | 293.2 | 3122.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 19,422 | 272.9 | 3799.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,504 | 317.9 | 3225 |
Hermiston's crime figures on this page originate from Hermiston Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Hermiston in population. Their populations run from 17,380 to 21,745, against 19,504 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Oregon cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Hermiston's 317.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: Hermiston 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 Hermiston's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hermiston, OR 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. Hermiston is scored in the mid-size municipal band (19,504 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.