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Safety in Mustang · FBI data, 2023–2025

Mustang reports less crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns

On crimes reported to the FBI by Mustang’s police in 2023–2025, it grades B for safety: #15 of 124 graded towns in Oklahoma.

Violent crime
1.2
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of OK (4.8)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
8.5
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of OK (22.7)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
705
86 violent · 619 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Mustang

Among Oklahoma towns, higher

Oklahoma’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Mustang’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 88% of the 124 Oklahoma towns we grade, against 64% nationally. Safety Grade ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Mustang’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 lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.

Where Mustang sits
B Violent 1.2B Property 8.5
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 64%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Oklahoma towns we grade (124)Less crime than 88% · #15 of 124
Places of 5,000–25,000 people (3,282)Less crime than 63%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 705 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Mustang anywhere from B to B+.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Mustang’s police reported 86 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.8 in the rest of Oklahoma and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 8 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.

Property crime (8.4)Violent crime (1)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Mustang1.0
Rest of OK4.7
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Mustang8.4
Rest of OK20.8
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Oklahoma.

Show as a table
YearMustang propertyRest of Oklahoma propertyMustang violentRest of Oklahoma violent
20229.326.41.64.8
202310.624.51.14.7
20246.722.81.44.9
20258.420.81.04.7

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

235 crimes reported in 2025

26 violent and 209 property, as reported to the FBI by Mustang’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft175
Burglary17
Vehicle theft17
Aggravated assault16
Robbery1
Rape9
Homicide0
Arson2
26
violent crimes
209
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

On the roads

Six people died in crashes on Mustang’s roads in 2019–2023

Mustang had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which six people died.

That is about what is typical for Oklahoma towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (9.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Mustang’s size would see about 10 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mustang’s own rate (5.4) is context, not a ranking.

6
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
5.4
per 100,000 a year · Oklahoma towns of 5,000–25,000: 9.0

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

Mustang and its neighbors

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

Mustang
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
MustangB1.28.5

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

Oklahoma towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
MustangB1.28.5
YukonC+2.013.1
SapulpaC+2.514.4
DuncanC−3.521.3
Ponca CityD5.224.2
ArdmoreD−11.329.9

The five graded Oklahoma towns closest to Mustang’s population (24,571), by grade.

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.
  • One number for all of Mustang. 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 Mustang’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (25,026 in 2025); our figure for Mustang is 24,571 (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 Mustang

Is Mustang, OK safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mustang reports less crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #15 of 124 in Oklahoma. Its police reported 1.2 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.8 in the rest of Oklahoma and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

What is the crime rate in Mustang?

1.2 violent and 8.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Oklahoma reports 4.8 and 22.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.

Is crime going up or down in Mustang?

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.

Who polices Mustang?

Mustang’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mustang”. 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.