Okemah, OK has a F safety grade (12/100) with a violent crime rate of 656 per 100,000, 86% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Okemah is a small municipal reporter (3,049 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with OK and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Okemah, OK is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 86% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Okemah, OK shows violent crime at 656 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,623.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 86% 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
Okemah reported 20 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,049. 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 656.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Okemah ranks 24 of 300 — above 276 of the 299 other Oklahoma cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +208.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 416.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 656.0 in 2024 (+57.4%). The highest observed value was 656.0 in 2024 and the lowest 328.4 in 2022. 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 Okemah's 656.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Porum (655.7), Locust Grove (643.8), Grandfield (669.6), Oklahoma City (676.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.0% of the 100 Part I offenses reported in Okemah for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable Oklahoma cities — a gap of 5.0 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 counts dominate Okemah'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 20 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,049. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 3.1 Census sq mi, Okemah logged 25.8 property and 6.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Okemah leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,644.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Okemah offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.1 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 | 80 | 2623.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 53 | 1738.3 |
| Burglary | 22 | 721.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 164 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 20 | 656 |
| Aggravated Assault | 18 | 590.4 |
| Murder | 1 | 32.8 |
| Rape | 1 | 32.8 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
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 | 3,120 | 416.7 | 3365.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,031 | 461.9 | 3992.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,045 | 328.4 | 3645.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,984 | 636.7 | 2513.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,049 | 656 | 2623.8 |
Okemah Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Okemah's 100 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 Okemah in population. Their populations run from 2,946 to 3,104, against 3,049 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Okemah sits at 656/100K violent (grade F); the Oklahoma cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Okemah reported 20 violent crimes and 80 property crimes, for a total of 100 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Okemah's violent crime rate increased by 3%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.4%.
The most common crime type in Okemah is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.0% of all reported crimes (53 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Okemah is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Okemah's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Okemah, OK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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