Locust Grove, OK has a F safety grade (6/100) with a violent crime rate of 644 per 100,000, 83% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Locust Grove's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,398). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to OK and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Locust Grove, OK is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 83% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Locust Grove, OK shows violent crime at 643.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,291.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 83% 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.
Small-count caution
Locust Grove reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,398. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 643.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Locust Grove ranks 26 of 300 — above 274 of the 299 other Oklahoma cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +203.1% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Locust Grove's 643.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Porum (655.7), Okemah (656.0), Cherokee (625.9), Grandfield (669.6). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 50.0% of reported property offenses in Locust Grove, against a cohort median of 66.1%. The remainder is burglary (22) and motor vehicle theft (8). 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 718.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 643.8 in 2024 (-10.4%). The highest observed value was 718.4 in 2020 and the lowest 430.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Locust Grove'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 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,398. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 1.8 Census sq mi, Locust Grove logged 32.9 property and 4.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Locust Grove leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,186.
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Locust Grove offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.8 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 | 60 | 4291.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 30 | 2145.9 |
| Burglary | 22 | 1573.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8 | 572.2 |
| Arson | 2 | 143.1 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 643.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 572.2 |
| Rape | 1 | 71.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
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 | 1,392 | 718.4 | 5172.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,392 | 502.9 | 3232.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,373 | 509.8 | 6773.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,393 | 430.7 | 4235.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,398 | 643.8 | 4291.8 |
Locust Grove Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Locust Grove's 69 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 Locust Grove in population. Their populations run from 1,358 to 1,438, against 1,398 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Locust Grove sits at 643.8/100K violent (grade F); the Oklahoma cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Locust Grove reported 9 violent crimes and 60 property crimes, for a total of 69 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Locust Grove's violent crime rate increased by 49.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.3%.
The most common crime type in Locust Grove is larceny-theft, accounting for 43.5% of all reported crimes (30 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Locust Grove's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Locust Grove's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Locust Grove, OK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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