La Grande, OR has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 255 per 100,000, 28% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
La Grande (12,963 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
La Grande, OR is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 28% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, La Grande, OR shows violent crime at 254.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,669.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 28% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 146.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 254.6 in 2024 (+74.0%). The highest observed value was 417.9 in 2023 and the lowest 146.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to La Grande's 254.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ashland (253.0), Myrtle Creek (256.5), Newport (246.4), Dallas (263.0). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 254.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, La Grande ranks 37 of 88 — above 51 of the 87 other Oregon cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +15.5% 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.
Property counts dominate La Grande'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 4.6 Census sq mi, La Grande logged 75.3 property and 7.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
La Grande's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 379 offenses; mix index 5,690).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
La Grande offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.6 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 | 346 | 2669.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 280 | 2160 |
| Burglary | 50 | 385.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 16 | 123.4 |
| Arson | 5 | 38.6 |
| Violent Crime | 33 | 254.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 169.7 |
| Rape | 7 | 54 |
| Robbery | 4 | 30.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 13,674 | 146.3 | 2384.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 13,431 | 253.1 | 2300.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,174 | 280.9 | 2573.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,160 | 417.9 | 2142.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,963 | 254.6 | 2669.1 |
La Grande Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind La Grande's 379 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 La Grande in population. Their populations run from 10,553 to 15,469, against 12,963 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
La Grande sits at 254.6/100K violent (grade C); the Oregon cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
La Grande at 254.6/100K violent and 2,669.1/100K property - matched below outside Oregon (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
254.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,669.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, La Grande reported 33 violent crimes and 346 property crimes, for a total of 379 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, La Grande's violent crime rate decreased by 39.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 24.6%.
The most common crime type in La Grande is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.9% of all reported crimes (280 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: La Grande 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 La Grande's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 La Grande, OR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
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