Roseburg, OR is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Roseburg, OR shows violent crime at 217.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,766.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
217.4/100K violent
3766.4/100K property
-38% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Roseburg, OR
Comparable rate records
Roseburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Oregon cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Roseburg's 217.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Redmond (217.5), Milton-Freewater (216.8), Umatilla (215.6), Tualatin (220.4). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 335.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 217.4 in 2024 (-35.2%). The highest observed value was 428.6 in 2021 and the lowest 217.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 5.5% of the 953 Part I offenses reported in Roseburg for 2024, against a median of 11.4% across comparable Oregon cities — a gap of 6.0 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.
Position in the state cohort
Roseburg sits mid-pack among comparable Oregon cities
At 217.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Roseburg ranks 47 of 88 — above 41 of the 87 other Oregon cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -2.7% 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.
Property counts dominate Roseburg'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.
Roseburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.8 Census sq mi, Roseburg logged 83.7 property and 4.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Roseburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 953 offenses; mix index 6,666).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-34.1%
330 → 217.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-15.7%
4469.1 → 3766.4/100K
Property offenses lead Roseburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
901
3766.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
772
3227.2
-
Burglary
66
275.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
63
263.4
-
Arson
13
54.3
-
Violent Crime
52
217.4
352
Aggravated Assault
22
92
-
Robbery
16
66.9
-
Rape
13
54.3
-
Murder
1
4.2
-
Roseburg Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Roseburg 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Roseburg: 217 violent, 3766 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Klamath Falls: 484 violent, 2688 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Milwaukie: 193 violent, 1527 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Newberg-Dundee: 145 violent, 1011 property per 100,000 (grade A)
West Linn: 57 violent, 777 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ashland: 253 violent, 1766 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Forest Grove: 337 violent, 1367 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Tualatin: 220 violent, 2623 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Lebanon: 144 violent, 1052 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Roseburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Roseburg NIBRS-participating
Roseburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Roseburg's 953 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 Oregon
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Oregon cities closest to Roseburg in population. Their populations run from 20,144 to 27,219, against 23,922 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Roseburg reported 52 violent crimes and 901 property crimes, for a total of 953 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Roseburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Roseburg's violent crime rate decreased by 34.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.7%.
What is the most common crime in Roseburg?
The most common crime type in Roseburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.0% of all reported crimes (772 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Roseburg 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Roseburg, OR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.