Safest Cities in Oregon (2024 FBI Data)

These are the Oregon cities with the lowest violent crime rates reported to the FBI, drawn from the same database that powers SafeNest. Every figure below is computed from 2024 FBI data by a script committed alongside this page.

50 Oregon cities qualify for the ranking: municipalities of 10,000+ residents with their own police department, reporting a full year of 2024 data. Baker City reports the lowest violent crime rate in the state at 29.3 per 100,000 residents.

Oregon cities of 10,000+ residents with their own municipal police department, ranked by reported violent crime rate, 2024 FBI data. 50 cities qualified; the 25 with the lowest reported violent rate are shown.
#	City	Population	Violent / 100k	Property / 100k	Grade
1	Baker City	10,255	29.3	643.6	A
2	West Linn	26,382	56.9	777.0	A
3	Sandy	13,042	61.3	1,518.2	A
4	Lake Oswego	39,627	65.6	1,100.3	A
5	Molalla	10,057	129.3	696.0	A
6	Sherwood	19,804	131.3	1,519.9	A
7	Monmouth	11,311	132.6	946.0	A
8	Lebanon	20,144	144.0	1,052.4	A
9	Newberg-dundee	26,302	144.5	1,011.3	A
10	Keizer	38,310	146.2	1,910.7	B
11	Bend	106,241	168.5	1,362.0	B
12	Central Point	19,199	171.9	974.0	A
13	Corvallis	61,474	183.8	2,511.6	B
14	Milwaukie	21,745	193.1	1,526.8	B
15	Sweet Home	10,325	193.7	2,673.1	B
16	Gladstone	11,810	194.8	1,676.5	B
17	Albany	57,179	197.6	1,831.1	B
18	Canby	17,861	212.8	901.4	B
19	Roseburg	23,922	217.4	3,766.4	C
20	Redmond	38,159	217.5	2,345.4	B
21	Tualatin	27,219	220.4	2,623.2	C
22	Mcminnville	34,443	226.5	1,428.4	B
23	Oregon City	37,213	231.1	1,324.8	B
24	Prineville	12,047	240.7	730.5	B
25	Newport	10,553	246.4	2,672.2	C

What the Oregon data shows

The typical Oregon city against the national baseline

The median ranked Oregon city reports 249.7 violent crimes per 100,000 residents — 34% below the national baseline of 381 that SafeNest grades against. Its median property rate is 1,952.7 per 100,000. 82.0% of the state's ranked cities report a violent rate below the national average.

How the grades fall

Across those 50 cities: 10 grade A, 15 B, 21 C, 4 D and 0 F. That puts 20.0% of Oregon's ranked cities at an A, against 38.5% of comparable cities nationally — below the national rate. The grade is national-relative, not a curve within the state: a city at exactly the US average violent and property crime rate scores 50 out of 100 and receives a C, wherever it is.

What the ranking leaves out

Two groups of Oregon places are absent from the ranking, because each would otherwise take a top place without being a safe city (why):

23 county and sheriff agencies — county-wide averages are diluted by everything outside the urban core, so they outrank real cities without being cities.
2 cities whose most recent full year is not 2024 — ranking one city's older data against another's is not a comparison.

Which way Oregon moved

Year-over-year direction, as reported: of the 50 ranked Oregon cities with a comparable prior year, 17 reported a lower violent crime rate than the year before and 22 reported a higher one, with 11 roughly level. That is what the agencies filed for 2024 against their own previous year — it is a record of what changed, not a projection of what happens next. 26 of 50 ranked Oregon cities reported no homicides at all.

How close the letters are in Oregon

4 of Oregon's 50 ranked cities would print a different letter grade if their violent crime count changed by a single incident. That is not a flaw peculiar to Oregon: every threshold system has a boundary and some cities sit on it. It is the concrete reason to treat the gap between adjacent grades — and adjacent positions in the table above — as noise rather than a finding.

The largest cities in Oregon

The ranking above is dominated by suburbs, because that is what a violent-crime rate does: it sorts small and affluent places to the top. Here are the biggest Oregon cities in the same data, ordered by population rather than by crime, so you can see where they actually land.

The largest Oregon cities in the ranking, by population — not by crime. Big cities carry higher reported rates almost everywhere, which is why a safest-cities list and a biggest-cities list look nothing alike.
City	Population	Violent / 100k	Property / 100k	Grade
Portland	623,066	720.5	5,526.2	D
Eugene	178,057	318.4	3,255.7	C
Salem	177,936	534.5	2,803.3	D
Gresham	109,452	410.2	2,426.6	C
Hillsboro	107,978	317.7	2,429.2	C
Bend	106,241	168.5	1,362.0	B
Beaverton	96,762	364.8	2,661.2	C
Medford	84,766	491.9	3,831.7	D

Why no small towns are on this list. Oregon has 55 municipalities under 10,000 residents in the FBI data. 47.3% of them are graded A, and 10.9% reported no violent crime at all. In a town of a few thousand people that is the expected outcome in a given year rather than evidence of anything, and a single incident would move the rate sharply. Ranking them against cities would put towns at the top of this page on the strength of a number that is mostly noise, so they are excluded from the ranking and reported here instead.

SafeNest city reports in Oregon

These are full SafeNest reports for Oregon cities — crime, flood history, schools and offender data. They are the state's larger cities, which is why most of them do not appear in the ranking above: a safest-cities list and a biggest-cities list are not the same list.

Is Portland safe? — grade D, 720.0 violent per 100,000

Method, in short

Rankings come from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data (2024), via the Kaplan agency panel (DOI 10.3886/E100707V22). A city's score is 100 / (1 + severity), weighing its violent rate against a national baseline of 381 per 100,000 (70%) and its property rate against 1,954 per 100,000 (30%) — the same code that grades cities in the SafeNest app. Every number here is computed by generate_state_rankings.py; the ranking is a sort, not an edit.

A grade is not a verdict. It is a city-wide average of reported crime — an informational opinion, not a statement of fact, and not a description of any street, block or address. It may not be used for tenant screening, hiring or lending (Terms). Full sources and data vintages: methodology.

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