Tahlequah, OK has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 182 per 100,000, 48% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Tahlequah (17,037 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
Tahlequah, OK carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 48% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tahlequah, OK shows violent crime at 182 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,295 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 48% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Tahlequah's 182.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Stillwater (182.3), Harrah (181.4), Mangum (183.0), Jones (183.7). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 93.1% of reported property offenses in Tahlequah, against a cohort median of 66.1%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (11). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.3% of the 422 Part I offenses reported in Tahlequah for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable Oklahoma cities — a gap of 7.7 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 182.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tahlequah ranks 170 of 300 — above 130 of the 299 other Oklahoma cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -14.7% against the cohort median of 213.2. 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 183.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 182.0 in 2024 (-0.6%). The highest observed value was 204.4 in 2021 and the lowest 93.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Tahlequah'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 12.8 Census sq mi, Tahlequah logged 30.6 property and 2.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Tahlequah's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (86% of 422 offenses; mix index 7,506).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Tahlequah offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 391 | 2295 |
| Larceny-Theft | 364 | 2136.5 |
| Burglary | 16 | 93.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 64.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 182 |
| Aggravated Assault | 28 | 164.3 |
| Rape | 2 | 11.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 5.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 16,936 | 183 | 2692.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 17,126 | 204.4 | 1144.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 16,757 | 155.2 | 1468 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 17,131 | 93.4 | 852.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 17,037 | 182 | 2295 |
Tahlequah Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Tahlequah's 422 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 Tahlequah in population. Their populations run from 14,568 to 20,133, against 17,037 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Tahlequah sits at 182/100K violent (grade B); the Oklahoma cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Tahlequah at 182/100K violent and 2,295/100K property - matched below outside Oklahoma (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
182/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,295/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Tahlequah reported 31 violent crimes and 391 property crimes, for a total of 422 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Tahlequah's violent crime rate increased by 94.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 169.3%.
The most common crime type in Tahlequah is larceny-theft, accounting for 86.3% of all reported crimes (364 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Tahlequah 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 Tahlequah's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Tahlequah, 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. Tahlequah is scored in the mid-size municipal band (17,037 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.