Tulsa, OK has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 942 per 100,000, 168% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 411,310 residents, Tulsa 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Tulsa, OK carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 168% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tulsa, OK shows violent crime at 941.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,627.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 168% 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 941.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tulsa ranks 11 of 300 — above 289 of the 299 other Oklahoma cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +343.4% 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 Tulsa's 941.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Atoka (976.8), Muskogee (986.5), Canton (890.9), Sperry (867.3). 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
The 18,794 Part I offenses reported here are 22.3% 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 411,310 rather than as a uniform shift.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1132.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 941.9 in 2024 (-16.8%). The highest observed value was 1132.6 in 2020 and the lowest 924.8 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 20.6% of the 18,794 Part I offenses reported in Tulsa for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable Oklahoma cities — a gap of 5.6 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 Tulsa'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.
Across 197.7 Census sq mi, Tulsa logged 75.5 property and 19.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Tulsa leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,396.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Tulsa offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (197.7 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 | 14,920 | 3627.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 9,862 | 2397.7 |
| Burglary | 3,073 | 747.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1,985 | 482.6 |
| Arson | 54 | 13.1 |
| Violent Crime | 3,874 | 941.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2,994 | 727.9 |
| Rape | 435 | 105.8 |
| Robbery | 406 | 98.7 |
| Murder | 39 | 9.5 |
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 | 402,166 | 1132.6 | 5174.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 404,255 | 1117.6 | 5027.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 410,135 | 945.1 | 4332 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 411,002 | 924.8 | 3973.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 411,310 | 941.9 | 3627.4 |
Tulsa Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Tulsa's 18,794 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 Tulsa in population. Their populations run from 50,382 to 709,456, against 411,310 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Tulsa sits at 941.9/100K violent (grade F); the Oklahoma cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Tulsa at 941.9/100K violent and 3,627.4/100K property - matched below outside Oklahoma (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
941.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,627.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+1.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Tulsa reported 3,874 violent crimes and 14,920 property crimes, for a total of 18,794 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Tulsa's violent crime rate increased by 1.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.7%.
The most common crime type in Tulsa is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.5% of all reported crimes (9,862 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Tulsa'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Tulsa's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Tulsa, OK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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