Ponca City, OK has a F safety grade (21/100) with a violent crime rate of 577 per 100,000, 64% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Ponca City (24,286 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then OK and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Ponca City, OK carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 64% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ponca City, OK shows violent crime at 576.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,503.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 64% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 576.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ponca City ranks 32 of 300 — above 268 of the 299 other Oklahoma cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +171.4% 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 Ponca City's 576.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Davis (573.7), Stilwell (579.7), Beggs (588.2), Yale (559.7). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 792.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 576.5 in 2024 (-27.2%). The highest observed value was 918.2 in 2021 and the lowest 542.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 18.7% of the 748 Part I offenses reported in Ponca City for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable Oklahoma cities — a gap of 3.7 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 Ponca 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 18.4 Census sq mi, Ponca City logged 33.1 property and 7.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Ponca City leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,454.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Ponca City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.4 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 | 608 | 2503.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 395 | 1626.5 |
| Burglary | 142 | 584.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 71 | 292.3 |
| Arson | 5 | 20.6 |
| Violent Crime | 140 | 576.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 107 | 440.6 |
| Rape | 21 | 86.5 |
| Robbery | 10 | 41.2 |
| Murder | 2 | 8.2 |
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 | 23,484 | 792 | 4530.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 23,307 | 918.2 | 3655.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 24,487 | 641.2 | 3189.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 24,328 | 542.6 | 3152.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 24,286 | 576.5 | 2503.5 |
Ponca City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ponca City's 748 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 Ponca City in population. Their populations run from 20,645 to 27,315, against 24,286 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Ponca City sits at 576.5/100K violent (grade F); the Oklahoma cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Ponca City at 576.5/100K violent and 2,503.5/100K property - matched below outside Oklahoma (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
576.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,503.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Ponca City reported 140 violent crimes and 608 property crimes, for a total of 748 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Ponca City's violent crime rate increased by 6.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.6%.
The most common crime type in Ponca City is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.8% of all reported crimes (395 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Ponca City 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 Ponca City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ponca City, OK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ponca City is scored in the mid-size municipal band (24,286 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.