Photo: Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0Reported crime per resident in Idabel fell 39% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Idabel grades C for safety (#70 of 124 graded towns in Oklahoma): more crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Idabel
Among Oklahoma towns, closer to the middle
Oklahoma’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Idabel’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 44% of the 124 Oklahoma towns we grade, against 27% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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 Idabel’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Idabel’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Reported crime is falling
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.
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| Year | Idabel property | Rest of Oklahoma property | Idabel violent | Rest of Oklahoma violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 41.6 | 26.2 | 1.7 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 33.7 | 24.4 | 1.3 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 21.2 | 22.7 | 1.6 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 20.5 | 20.7 | 0.9 | 4.6 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Violent crime, by year and by type
Idabel’s police reported 26 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.7 in the rest of Oklahoma and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Idabel | Rest of Oklahoma | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.7 | 4.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.3 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.6 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.9 | 4.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 21 property crimes reported
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
149 crimes reported in 2025
6 violent and 143 property, as reported to the FBI by Idabel’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
10 people died in crashes on Idabel’s roads in 2019–2023
Idabel had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is 28.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Oklahoma towns of 5,000–25,000 people (9.0, 58 towns).
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.
Idabel and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idabel | C | 1.2 | 25.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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 Idabel. 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 Idabel’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,984 in 2025); our figure for Idabel is 6,934 (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 Idabel
Is Idabel, OK safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Idabel reports more crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #70 of 124 in Oklahoma. Its police reported 1.2 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 Idabel?
1.2 violent and 25.2 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.
Is crime going up or down in Idabel?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Idabel?
Idabel’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Idabel”. 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.