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Oregon Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Oregon 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
56
Supported Oregon 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 Coos Bay
Violent Crime has increased 50% since 2021.
7.2 / 1k
2 Portland
Violent Crime has declined 1% since 2021.
6.7 / 1k
3 Lincoln City
Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021.
5.8 / 1k
4 Medford
Violent Crime has increased 39% since 2021.
5.0 / 1k
5 Salem
Violent Crime has increased 11% since 2021.
5.0 / 1k
6 Klamath Falls
Violent Crime has declined 35% since 2021.
4.7 / 1k
7 Madras
Violent Crime moved up by 3.5 / 1k from 1.1 / 1k in 2021 to 4.6 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
4.6 / 1k
8 Tillamook
Violent Crime has increased 187% since 2021.
4.6 / 1k
9 Warrenton
Violent Crime has increased 50% since 2021.
4.2 / 1k
10 Gresham
Violent Crime has declined 7% since 2021.
4.0 / 1k
11 Pendleton
Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2021.
4.0 / 1k
12 The Dalles
Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2021.
4.0 / 1k
13 Grants Pass
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
3.9 / 1k
14 Beaverton
Violent Crime has increased 39% since 2021.
3.9 / 1k
15 Eugene
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
3.8 / 1k
16 Springfield
Violent Crime has increased 12% since 2021.
3.8 / 1k
17 Forest Grove
Violent Crime has increased 12% since 2021.
3.7 / 1k
18 Astoria
Violent Crime has declined 48% since 2021.
3.4 / 1k
19 Hillsboro
Violent Crime has increased 31% since 2021.
3.4 / 1k
20 Tigard
Violent Crime has increased 21% since 2021.
3.4 / 1k
21 Boardman
Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021.
3.4 / 1k
22 Stayton
Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021.
3.3 / 1k
23 La Grande
Violent Crime has increased 19% since 2021.
3.2 / 1k
24 Prineville
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021.
3.1 / 1k
25 Cottage Grove
Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021.
3.0 / 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 Oregon 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.