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Safety in Indianola · Not graded

No grade for Indianola, but its recorded crime is here

The grade needs a town’s own FBI figures, and Indianola has none for 2023–2025. A 25-mile circle around it holds 4 towns with a grade. For a graded neighbor, the nearest is Eufaula (C), 14 miles away.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Oklahoma towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
EufaulaC14 mi2.320.1
McAlesterC−16 mi3.122.5
KrebsB−16 mi1.612.4
HenryettaC+23 mi2.612.7
HartshorneC+25 mi2.113.3
ChecotahC+26 mi2.113.0

Straight-line distance from the center of Indianola. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Indianola.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

One person died in crashes on Indianola’s roads in 2019–2023

Indianola had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.

That is about what is typical for Oklahoma towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (6.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Indianola’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Indianola’s own rate (128.2) is context, not a ranking.

1
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
128.2
per 100,000 a year · Oklahoma towns of 2,500–5,000: 6.1

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.

Next door

Indianola and its neighbors

Indianola
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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.
  • A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
  • 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 Indianola

Is Indianola, OK safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Indianola. Indianola has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Oklahoma towns with a grade are Eufaula (C, 14 mi), McAlester (C−, 16 mi), Krebs (B−, 16 mi).

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.