Photo: Justin Cozart from Dallas, TX, USA · CC BY 2.0For property crime, Bartlesville trails 84% of U.S. towns per resident
It grades C− for safety on crimes Bartlesville’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #97 of 124 graded towns in Oklahoma. The graded rate fell 15% from 2023 to 2025. Its police logs show 3.7 violent crimes and 24.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Oklahoma the numbers are 4.7 and 22.6.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of OK” is every other Oklahoma city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Bartlesville
1 of the 1 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 1 Oklahoma towns on Bartlesville’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Dewey (C). Neighbors ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Bartlesville’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Bartlesville property | Rest of Oklahoma property | Bartlesville violent | Rest of Oklahoma violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 26.6 | 26.2 | 3.0 | 4.8 |
| 2023 | 27.7 | 24.3 | 3.8 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 21.2 | 22.7 | 3.7 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 23.2 | 20.6 | 3.5 | 4.6 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Oklahoma.
Crime in Bartlesville per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Bartlesville | Rest of Oklahoma | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.0 | 4.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Bartlesville’s police reported 422 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.7 in the rest of Oklahoma and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
1,033 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
136 violent and 897 property, as reported to the FBI by Bartlesville’s police.
Five people died in crashes on Bartlesville’s roads in 2019–2023
Bartlesville had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died.
That is about what is typical for Oklahoma towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (5.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Bartlesville’s size would see about 10 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Bartlesville’s own rate (2.6) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Bartlesville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bartlesville | C− | 3.7 | 24.1 |
| Dewey | C | 3.2 | 18.1 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Oklahoma towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bartlesville | C− | 3.7 | 24.1 |
| Bixby | B+ | 1.2 | 7.2 |
| Owasso | B− | 1.2 | 13.9 |
| Stillwater | C+ | 1.9 | 15.8 |
| Shawnee | D | 4.9 | 26.9 |
| Muskogee | D− | 9.6 | 32.4 |
The five graded Oklahoma towns closest to Bartlesville’s population (38,278), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Bartlesville. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Bartlesville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (38,600 in 2025); our figure for Bartlesville is 38,278 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Bartlesville
Is Bartlesville, OK safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Bartlesville reports more crime per resident than 83% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #97 of 124 in Oklahoma. Its police reported 3.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.7 in the rest of Oklahoma and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Bartlesville?
3.7 violent and 24.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Oklahoma reports 4.7 and 22.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Bartlesville in 2025?
Bartlesville’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Bartlesville safer than Dewey?
Dewey reports less crime per resident than Bartlesville: Dewey grades C for safety and Bartlesville C−. Dewey’s police reported 3.2 violent and 18.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Bartlesville?
Bartlesville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Bartlesville”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.