County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Deschutes County, OR
At 198,253 residents, Deschutes County is a large county in Oregon. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Deschutes County, OR reported 31 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Deschutes County, OR agencies reported 61 violent and 468 property offenses. That equals about 31 violent and 236 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
61 violent offenses
31/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Deschutes County, OR
Position in the state cohort
Deschutes County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Oregon counties
At 30.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Deschutes County ranks 26 of 28 — above 2 of the 27 other Oregon counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -60.0% against the cohort median of 77.0. 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 42.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 30.8 in 2024 (-28.2%). The highest observed value was 44.4 in 2021 and the lowest 30.8 in 2024. 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 11.5% of the 529 Part I offenses reported in Deschutes County for 2024, against a median of 15.4% across comparable Oregon counties — a gap of 3.9 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.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
468
Burglary
69
Larceny-Theft
328
Motor Vehicle Theft
71
Arson
13
Violent Crime
61
Murder
0
Rape
9
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
51
Reporting Agency
Deschutes County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Deschutes County's crime figures on this page originate from Deschutes 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 Oregon
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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.