The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Oklahoma City, OK
The Oklahoma City metro area, the 42nd-largest in the US, is home to 1.46 million residents; Oklahoma City itself is the capital and largest city of Oklahoma · Updated November 2026
Is Oklahoma City, OK safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in the Oklahoma City area is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so the Oklahoma City area sits near the middle: 41% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 59% in neighborhoods with less. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. The city of Oklahoma City itself grades C+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within the Oklahoma City area run from A+ to F, so check the map or the safest and least safe places below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 784 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
41% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than the Oklahoma City area as a whole, and 59% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The Oklahoma City area scores 784.
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 Oklahoma City, OK at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the Oklahoma City area, 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 the Oklahoma City area
Burglaries run high for an A-graded metro area. The Oklahoma City area has 4.2 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US metro area, the figure is 1.8.
One part of Oklahoma City stands out for vehicle theft. Car thefts in Midtown, Epworth & Classen-ten-Penn, in central Oklahoma City, run at about double the rate in the rest of the city.
Thefts from cars happen in the morning far more often than nationally. In the Oklahoma City area, 47% of reported thefts from cars happen in the morning (6 am to noon), against 23% nationally.
The safest and most dangerous places in the Oklahoma City area
Most of the Oklahoma City area grades well: 79% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 14% in areas graded D or F. Grades across the Oklahoma City area run from A+ to F; 50% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
79%14%
A or B 79%C 7%D or F 14%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Neighborhoods of Oklahoma City
1Fox Run, Wileman 3 & Willow Creek-Oklahoma City, northwestBurglaries run at about half the rate in the rest of Oklahoma City.B+714
2Mayridge, Winds West & John Glenn Two, southwestCar thefts run about 40% lower here than in the rest of Oklahoma City.B682
3Parkview, Shields-Davis & Cloverleaf, southeastCar thefts run about 40% lower here than in the rest of Oklahoma City.B-548
4Britton, Camelot Estates & Woodland Park, northRobberies run about 30% lower here than in the rest of Oklahoma City.C+516
5South Park Estates, North Highland & Chisholm Creek, northeastCar thefts run about 40% lower here than in the rest of Oklahoma City.C+509
6West 10th, Musgrave-Pennington & Rockwood, westBurglaries run about 60% higher here than in the rest of Oklahoma City.C437
7Brandywine, Heronville & Southern Hills, southThefts run about 90% higher here than in the rest of Oklahoma City.C413
8Midtown, Epworth & Classen-ten-Penn, centralBurglaries run about 80% higher here than in the rest of Oklahoma City.D229
9Top of the Town, Culbertson East Highland & Shidler-Wheeler, eastMurders run at about triple the rate in the rest of Oklahoma City.F74
Neighborhood areas of the city of Oklahoma City, ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Cities and towns in the Oklahoma City metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Across the area, the Mustang, Chickasha, and Blanchard areas have the least crime and the downtown Oklahoma City area the most.
Is crime going up in the Oklahoma City area?
Since 2019, reported property crime in the Oklahoma City area is down 29%, while violent crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.7 to 4.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 31 to 22 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Oklahoma City areaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments across the Oklahoma City area. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Oklahoma City area
Violent, US
Property, Oklahoma City area
Property, US
2016
+6%
+4%
+0%
+15%
2017
+8%
+4%
-6%
+12%
2018
+15%
+0%
-0%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+2%
+4%
-5%
-8%
2021
-5%
+6%
-7%
-10%
2022
-2%
+5%
-18%
-6%
2023
-6%
+2%
-24%
-7%
2024
-2%
-4%
-29%
-15%
Crime rates and types in the Oklahoma City area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the Oklahoma City area has about 44 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 19% more than the US as a whole and close to 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.
Theft is the most common crime in the Oklahoma City area, about 35% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
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.
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 the Oklahoma City area
These figures come from the reports of the police departments across the Oklahoma City area, 2022 to 2024.
In the Oklahoma City area, 58% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (58%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (50%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (48%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (45%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (34%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (54%)
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 the Oklahoma City area compares with nearby metro areas
The Oklahoma City area has less crime than 8 of its 10 nearest metro areas; only the Omaha area and the Tulsa area have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the Oklahoma City area. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the Oklahoma City area is safer than 59% of them.
Empty homes, density and transit in the Oklahoma City area
One thing sets the Oklahoma City area apart: it has 9% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery and car theft, yet robbery runs higher here than that would suggest.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary.7.9% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 84% of Americans in metro areas
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.9% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 82% of Americans in metro areas
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for the Oklahoma City area: D- (9 of 100).1 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 78% of Americans in metro areas
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Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.85% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 59% of Americans in metro areas
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 the Oklahoma City area
Crime costs the Oklahoma City area about $1,464 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 21% more than the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $809 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $2.77 billion a year, or $1,896 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$179 million
$122
Rape
$51 million
$35
Robbery
$26 million
$17
Assault
$255 million
$174
Burglary
$55 million
$38
Theft
$116 million
$79
Vehicle theft
$58 million
$39
Arson
$4.6 million
$3
Vandalism
$65 million
$45
Total
$809 million
$553
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 the Oklahoma City area 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. These figures cover the whole Oklahoma City metro area. 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 the Oklahoma City area average a SchoolGrade of B-: 29% of students test proficient, against 28% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in the Oklahoma City area on SchoolGrade
