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Oklahoma Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Oklahoma cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
42
Supported Oklahoma cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Ardmore
Violent Crime has increased 65% since 2021.
9.9 / 1k
2 Tulsa
Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021.
9.9 / 1k
3 Muskogee
Violent Crime has declined 1% since 2021.
8.7 / 1k
4 Lawton
Violent Crime has increased 41% since 2021.
7.9 / 1k
5 Oklahoma City
Violent Crime has increased 2% since 2021.
6.2 / 1k
6 Ponca City
Violent Crime has declined 35% since 2021.
5.7 / 1k
7 Enid
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
5.5 / 1k
8 Shawnee
Violent Crime has increased 2% since 2021.
5.3 / 1k
9 Del City
Violent Crime has declined 32% since 2021.
5.3 / 1k
10 Bartlesville
Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021.
4.2 / 1k
11 Ada
Violent Crime has increased 32% since 2021.
4.1 / 1k
12 Duncan
Violent Crime has increased 11% since 2021.
3.9 / 1k
13 Warr Acres
Violent Crime has declined 33% since 2021.
3.6 / 1k
14 Midwest City
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
3.4 / 1k
15 Claremore
Violent Crime has declined 40% since 2021.
2.9 / 1k
16 Norman
Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2021.
2.9 / 1k
17 Chickasha
Violent Crime has declined 35% since 2021.
2.8 / 1k
18 Sand Springs
Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2021.
2.6 / 1k
19 Durant
Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021.
2.6 / 1k
20 Bethany
Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021.
2.5 / 1k
21 Broken Arrow
Violent Crime has increased 39% since 2021.
2.5 / 1k
22 El Reno
Violent Crime has increased 14% since 2021.
2.5 / 1k
23 Noble
Violent Crime has increased 9% since 2021.
2.4 / 1k
24 Stillwater
Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021.
2.3 / 1k
25 Moore
Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021.
2.2 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Oklahoma cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.