Sallisaw, OK has a F safety grade (22/100) with a violent crime rate of 506 per 100,000, 44% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Sallisaw is a small municipal reporter (8,688 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with OK and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Sallisaw, OK carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 44% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sallisaw, OK shows violent crime at 506.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,153.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 260.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 506.4 in 2024 (+94.5%). The highest observed value was 506.4 in 2024 and the lowest 260.4 in 2020. 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 Sallisaw's 506.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cyril (507.0), Antlers (503.4), Shawnee (500.5), Kiowa (499.2). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 506.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sallisaw ranks 43 of 300 — above 257 of the 299 other Oklahoma cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +138.4% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 82.8% of reported property offenses in Sallisaw, against a cohort median of 66.1%. The remainder is burglary (33) and motor vehicle theft (14). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Sallisaw'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.
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 13.9 Census sq mi, Sallisaw logged 19.8 property and 3.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sallisaw's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 318 offenses; mix index 5,389).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Sallisaw offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.9 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 | 274 | 3153.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 227 | 2612.8 |
| Burglary | 33 | 379.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 14 | 161.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 44 | 506.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 41 | 471.9 |
| Rape | 2 | 23 |
| Murder | 1 | 11.5 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,448 | 260.4 | 2947.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,405 | 499.7 | 3414.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,505 | 435 | 4162.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,561 | 443.9 | 3422.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,688 | 506.4 | 3153.8 |
Sallisaw Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sallisaw's 318 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 Sallisaw in population. Their populations run from 8,345 to 9,302, against 8,688 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sallisaw sits at 506.4/100K violent (grade F); the Oklahoma cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Sallisaw reported 44 violent crimes and 274 property crimes, for a total of 318 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sallisaw's violent crime rate increased by 14.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.9%.
The most common crime type in Sallisaw is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.4% of all reported crimes (227 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Sallisaw 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 Sallisaw's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sallisaw, OK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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