Wetumka, OK is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 200% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wetumka, OK shows violent crime at 1,055.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,397.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 200% 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.
F safety grade
1055.4/100K violent
4397.5/100K property
+200% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Wetumka, OK
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 502.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1055.4 in 2024 (+109.9%). The highest observed value was 1055.4 in 2024 and the lowest 264.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Wetumka reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,137. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
Wetumka reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Oklahoma cities
At 1055.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wetumka ranks 6 of 300 — above 294 of the 299 other Oklahoma cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +396.9% 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
Wetumka's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Oklahoma cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Wetumka's 1055.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Jay (1052.2), Geary (1025.6), Muskogee (986.5), Atoka (976.8). 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 80.0% of reported property offenses in Wetumka, against a cohort median of 66.1%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 19.4% of the 62 Part I offenses reported in Wetumka for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable Oklahoma cities — a gap of 4.4 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 Wetumka'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.
Based on 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,137. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Wetumka's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 1.9 Census sq mi, Wetumka logged 26.5 property and 6.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wetumka's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 62 offenses; mix index 4,581).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+298.9%
264.6 → 1055.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
+21.6%
3615.5 → 4397.5/100K
Property offenses lead Wetumka's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs OK
Property Crime
50
4397.5
1711
2008.3
Larceny-Theft
40
3518
-
-
Burglary
7
615.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
3
263.9
-
-
Arson
1
88
-
-
Violent Crime
12
1055.4
352
427.9
Aggravated Assault
10
879.5
-
-
Rape
1
88
-
-
Robbery
1
88
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Wetumka Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Wetumka property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose 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
Wetumka: 1055 violent, 4398 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Thomas: 441 violent, 265 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Mooreland: 0 violent, 89 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Sperry: 867 violent, 2255 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Geronimo: 0 violent, 858 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Fairland: 90 violent, 633 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Salina: 363 violent, 1724 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Laverne: 0 violent, 932 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Fairfax: 274 violent, 1828 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Wetumka Police Department
Reporting agency for Wetumka NIBRS-participating
Wetumka Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wetumka's 62 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 Oklahoma
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Oklahoma cities closest to Wetumka in population. Their populations run from 1,094 to 1,180, against 1,137 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Wetumka reported 12 violent crimes and 50 property crimes, for a total of 62 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Wetumka?
From 2023 to 2024, Wetumka's violent crime rate increased by 298.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 21.6%.
What is the most common crime in Wetumka?
The most common crime type in Wetumka is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.5% of all reported crimes (40 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Wetumka's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Wetumka, OK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.