County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led

Carter County, OK

Carter County (48,003 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Oklahoma. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.

Data updated 2026-08-24

173
Property offenses
13
Violent offenses
186
Total · 2024

Carter County, OK reported 27 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Carter County, OK agencies reported 13 violent and 173 property offenses. That equals about 27 violent and 360 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.

  • 2024 UCR year
  • 13 violent offenses
  • 27/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Carter County, OK

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Carter County reported 13 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 48,003. 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

Carter County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Oklahoma counties

At 27.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Carter County ranks 63 of 73 — above 10 of the 72 other Oklahoma counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -69.2% against the cohort median of 87.9. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 47.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 27.1 in 2024 (-43.5%). The highest observed value was 47.9 in 2020 and the lowest 27.1 in 2022. 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 7.0% of the 186 Part I offenses reported in Carter County for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Oklahoma counties — a gap of 9.7 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.

Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county

Category Count
Property Crime 173
Burglary 36
Larceny-Theft 108
Motor Vehicle Theft 29
Arson 8
Violent Crime 13
Murder 1
Rape 2
Robbery 0
Aggravated Assault 10

Reporting Agency

Carter County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Carter County's crime figures on this page originate from Carter County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

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 Counties in Oklahoma

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Oklahoma counties closest to Carter County in population. Their populations run from 45,818 to 49,555, against 48,003 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Carter County

Similar violent rate (~27/100K)

Similar property rate (~360/100K)

ZIP Codes in Carter County

State atlas: Oklahoma · Compare · Rankings

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.

FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.

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