Oklahoma City, OK has a F safety grade (7/100) with a violent crime rate of 676 per 100,000, 92% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
Oklahoma City, OK Crime Rate & Safety
At 709,456 residents, Oklahoma City is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against OK and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Oklahoma City, OK carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 92% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oklahoma City, OK shows violent crime at 676 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,893.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 92% 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.
F safety grade
676/100K violent
2893.5/100K property
+92% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Oklahoma City, OK
Position in the state cohort
Oklahoma City reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Oklahoma cities
At 676.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oklahoma City ranks 22 of 300 — above 278 of the 299 other Oklahoma cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +218.3% 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
Oklahoma City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Oklahoma cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oklahoma City's 676.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mountain View (682.1), Grandfield (669.6), Okemah (656.0), Porum (655.7). 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.
Share of the state cohort
Oklahoma City carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 25,324 Part I offenses reported here are 30.0% of the 84,278 reported across all 300 comparable Oklahoma cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 709,456 rather than as a uniform shift.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 18.9% of the 25,324 Part I offenses reported in Oklahoma City for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable Oklahoma cities — a gap of 4.0 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 734.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 676.0 in 2024 (-7.9%). The highest observed value was 734.1 in 2020 and the lowest 650.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Oklahoma City'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.
On a very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Oklahoma City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 606.5 Census sq mi, Oklahoma City logged 33.8 property and 7.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oklahoma City leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,558.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (606.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+3.2%
654.9 → 676/100K
Property Crime Rate
-3.6%
3001.9 → 2893.5/100K
Property offenses lead Oklahoma City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
20,528
2893.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
13,840
1950.8
-
Burglary
4,133
582.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
2,555
360.1
-
Arson
120
16.9
-
Violent Crime
4,796
676
352
Aggravated Assault
3,499
493.2
-
Robbery
707
99.7
-
Rape
517
72.9
-
Murder
73
10.3
-
Oklahoma City Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Oklahoma City property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Oklahoma City Police Department
Reporting agency for Oklahoma City NIBRS-participating
Oklahoma City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oklahoma City's 25,324 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Oklahoma
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Oklahoma cities closest to Oklahoma City in population. Their populations run from 50,382 to 411,310, against 709,456 here. Or use our
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Oklahoma City at 676/100K violent and 2,893.5/100K property - matched below outside Oklahoma (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Oklahoma City reported 4,796 violent crimes and 20,528 property crimes, for a total of 25,324 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Oklahoma City?
From 2023 to 2024, Oklahoma City's violent crime rate increased by 3.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.6%.
What is the most common crime in Oklahoma City?
The most common crime type in Oklahoma City is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.7% of all reported crimes (13,840 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Oklahoma City's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Oklahoma City, OK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.