Photo: kennethaw88 · CC BY 4.0Tecumseh records more violent crime per head than 78% of U.S. towns
The crimes the grade counts held steady per resident from 2023 to 2025. That puts it at C− for safety, judged on crimes Tecumseh’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #81 of 124 graded towns in Oklahoma. The local count comes to 3.5 violent crimes and 18.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 4.7 and 22.6 in the rest of Oklahoma.
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’s behind Tecumseh’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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.5) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Crime in Tecumseh 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 5 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 | Tecumseh | Rest of Oklahoma | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.9 | 4.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.5 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.5 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Tecumseh’s police reported 67 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.7 in the rest of Oklahoma and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
How crime in Tecumseh has moved
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| Year | Tecumseh property | Rest of Oklahoma property | Tecumseh violent | Rest of Oklahoma violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 19.8 | 26.2 | 1.9 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 19.7 | 24.4 | 3.5 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 17.5 | 22.7 | 2.5 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 18.0 | 20.7 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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.
144 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.
29 violent and 115 property, as reported to the FBI by Tecumseh’s police.
Four people died in crashes on Tecumseh’s roads in 2019–2023
Tecumseh had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died; 1 was a pedestrian and 1 was a cyclist.
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 Tecumseh’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Tecumseh’s own rate (12.6) 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.
Tecumseh and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tecumseh | C− | 3.5 | 18.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Oklahoma towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tecumseh | C− | 3.5 | 18.4 |
| Verdigris | A− | 0.6 | 4.8 |
| Idabel | C | 1.2 | 25.2 |
| Holdenville | C− | 3.0 | 21.1 |
| Blackwell | C− | 3.8 | 20.4 |
| Pauls Valley | C− | 3.8 | 24.3 |
The five graded Oklahoma towns closest to Tecumseh’s population (6,402), 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 Tecumseh. 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 Tecumseh’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,385 in 2025); our figure for Tecumseh is 6,402 (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 Tecumseh
Is Tecumseh, OK safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Tecumseh reports more crime per resident than 76% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #81 of 124 in Oklahoma. Its police reported 3.5 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 Tecumseh?
3.5 violent and 18.4 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.
Who polices Tecumseh?
Tecumseh’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Tecumseh”. 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.