The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Bartlesville, OK
Bartlesville is a city of 41,000 in Washington County, about 40 miles north of downtown Tulsa · Updated November 2026
Is Bartlesville, OK safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Bartlesville is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Bartlesville sits near the middle: 43% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 57% in neighborhoods with less. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Bartlesville run from A+ to D+, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 796 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
43% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Bartlesville as a whole, and 57% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Bartlesville scores 796.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Bartlesville, OK at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Bartlesville, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Bartlesville
Robberies are less common than the crime level suggests. Crime overall in Bartlesville runs 32% above the US rate, but robberies run at less than half that rate: 0.26 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
Burglaries run high for an A-graded city. Bartlesville has 3.5 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 1.2.
The safest and least safe parts of Bartlesville
Low crime is the norm across Bartlesville: 86% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 2% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Bartlesville run from A+ to D+; 32% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
86%12%
A or B 86%C 12%D or F 2%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Bartlesville, the southeast side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Bartlesville?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Bartlesville is up 19% and property crime is down 33%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.1 to 3.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 32 to 21 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 23%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
BartlesvilleUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Bartlesville. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Bartlesville
Violent, US
Property, Bartlesville
Property, US
2016
-3%
+4%
-2%
+15%
2017
-27%
+4%
-0%
+12%
2018
-8%
+0%
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-23%
+4%
-3%
-8%
2021
+8%
+6%
-12%
-10%
2022
+1%
+5%
-16%
-6%
2023
+26%
+2%
-12%
-7%
2024
+19%
-4%
-33%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Bartlesville
CrimeGrade™ estimates Bartlesville has about 49 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 32% more than the US as a whole and 16% more than Oklahoma.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
The largest share of crime reported in Bartlesville is assault, about 44% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
The Bartlesville Police Department's 2024 report of burglary had a month far out of line with the rest, a sign of a data-entry error or a catch-up month, so CrimeGrade™ set it aside and used the other months.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Bartlesville
Bartlesville has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Bartlesville, 68% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 55% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (68%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (63%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (55%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (50%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (60%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Bartlesville compares with nearby cities
Bartlesville has the most crime of its 6 nearest cities.
Empty homes, transit and walkability in Bartlesville
Two things set Bartlesville apart: it has 10.8% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 2.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson, and burglary and vandalism run high here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.10.8% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 89% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Bartlesville: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 84% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (15 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 58% of US city residents
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 82% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.4% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 77% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.12.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 75% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Bartlesville
Crime costs Bartlesville about $1,266 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 5% more than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $57 million a year, or $1,386 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$2.1 million
$50
Rape
$2.3 million
$57
Robbery
$330,000
$8
Assault
$8.5 million
$207
Burglary
$1.3 million
$32
Theft
$3.0 million
$73
Vehicle theft
$1.0 million
$25
Arson
$240,000
$6
Vandalism
$1.9 million
$47
Total
$21 million
$505
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Bartlesville means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Bartlesville, OK average a SchoolGrade of B-: 27% of students test proficient, against 28% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Bartlesville on SchoolGrade
