Lake Oswego, OR has a A safety grade (84/100) with a violent crime rate of 66 per 100,000, 81% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Lake Oswego (39,627 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
Lake Oswego, OR is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 81% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lake Oswego, OR shows violent crime at 65.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,100.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 81% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 65.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lake Oswego ranks 83 of 88 — above 5 of the 87 other Oregon cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -70.6% against the cohort median of 223.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Small-count caution
Lake Oswego reported 26 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 39,627. 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 Lake Oswego's 65.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sandy (61.3), West Linn (56.9), Florence (84.5), Philomath (85.5). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 5.6% of the 462 Part I offenses reported in Lake Oswego for 2024, against a median of 11.4% across comparable Oregon cities — a gap of 5.8 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 71.8% of reported property offenses in Lake Oswego, against a cohort median of 81.7%. The remainder is burglary (80) and motor vehicle theft (43). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 67.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 65.6 in 2024 (-2.4%). The highest observed value was 94.7 in 2021 and the lowest 57.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lake Oswego'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 26 reported violent incidents in a population of 39,627. 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 10.9 Census sq mi, Lake Oswego logged 40.1 property and 2.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lake Oswego's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 462 offenses; mix index 4,989).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lake Oswego offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.9 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 | 436 | 1100.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 313 | 789.9 |
| Burglary | 80 | 201.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 43 | 108.5 |
| Arson | 5 | 12.6 |
| Violent Crime | 26 | 65.6 |
| Rape | 11 | 27.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 27.8 |
| Robbery | 3 | 7.6 |
| Murder | 1 | 2.5 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 40,171 | 67.2 | 1662.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 40,138 | 94.7 | 1592 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 40,044 | 82.4 | 1588.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 39,756 | 57.9 | 1343.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 39,627 | 65.6 | 1100.3 |
Lake Oswego Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lake Oswego's 462 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 Lake Oswego in population. Their populations run from 26,992 to 39,113, against 39,627 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lake Oswego sits at 65.6/100K violent (grade A); the Oregon cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lake Oswego at 65.6/100K violent and 1,100.3/100K property - matched below outside Oregon (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
65.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,100.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+13.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Lake Oswego reported 26 violent crimes and 436 property crimes, for a total of 462 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lake Oswego's violent crime rate increased by 13.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.1%.
The most common crime type in Lake Oswego is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.7% of all reported crimes (313 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lake Oswego 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 Lake Oswego's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lake Oswego, OR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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