County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Klamath County, OR
At 69,413 residents, Klamath County is a large county in Oregon. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Klamath County, OR reported 281 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Klamath County, OR agencies reported 195 violent and 471 property offenses. That equals about 281 violent and 679 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
195 violent offenses
281/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Klamath County, OR
Position in the state cohort
Klamath County reported the highest violent-crime rate among comparable Oregon counties
At 280.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Klamath County ranks 1 of 28 — above 27 of the 27 other Oregon counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +286.1% against the cohort median of 72.8. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 185.8 per 100,000 in 2021 to 280.9 in 2024 (+51.2%). The highest observed value was 280.9 in 2024 and the lowest 162.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 29.3% of the 666 Part I offenses reported in Klamath County for 2024, against a median of 15.2% across comparable Oregon counties — a gap of 14.1 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 50.7% of reported property offenses in Klamath County, against a cohort median of 67.7%. The remainder is burglary (146) and motor vehicle theft (86). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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
471
Burglary
146
Larceny-Theft
239
Motor Vehicle Theft
86
Arson
7
Violent Crime
195
Murder
2
Rape
19
Robbery
5
Aggravated Assault
169
Reporting Agency
Klamath County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Klamath County's crime figures on this page originate from Klamath 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.