Photo: Sam Beebe · CC BY 2.0Per resident, Hood River records more property crime than 86% of U.S. towns
For every 1,000 residents, 1.2 violent crimes and 25.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of Oregon, the figures are 3.9 and 30.4. Across all the graded crimes, Hood River lands on C (#41 of 74 graded towns in Oregon): more crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. The rate the grade counts dropped 45% from 2023 to 2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of OR” is every other Oregon 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 Hood River
Among Oregon towns, closer to the middle
Oregon’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Hood River’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 45% of the 74 Oregon towns we grade, against 28% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Hood River has 6,317 jobs based in town for 8,315 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Hood River’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Hood River’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Hood River property | Rest of Oregon property | Hood River violent | Rest of Oregon violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 39.2 | 36.5 | 0.8 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 34.6 | 32.8 | 1.3 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 22.7 | 30.9 | 1.3 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 18.8 | 27.4 | 0.8 | 3.7 |
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 Oregon.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Hood River | Rest of Oregon | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.3 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.3 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.8 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Hood River’s police reported 29 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Oregon and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Hood River 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
164 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.
7 violent and 157 property, as reported to the FBI by Hood River’s police.
One person died in crashes on Hood River’s roads in 2019–2023
Hood River had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died. Most of these deaths (1 of 1) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Oregon towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (3.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Hood River’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hood River’s own rate (2.4) 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.
Hood River and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hood River | C | 1.2 | 25.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Oregon towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hood River | C | 1.2 | 25.4 |
| Umatilla | B− | 1.9 | 10.9 |
| Stayton | C+ | 2.0 | 15.8 |
| Florence | C+ | 0.9 | 20.6 |
| Sutherlin | C | 3.1 | 18.3 |
| Madras | C− | 3.8 | 24.2 |
The five graded Oregon towns closest to Hood River’s population (8,315), 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 Hood River. 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 Hood River’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,358 in 2025); our figure for Hood River is 8,315 (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 Hood River
Is Hood River, OR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Hood River reports more crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #41 of 74 in Oregon. Its police reported 1.2 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Oregon and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Hood River?
1.2 violent and 25.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Oregon reports 3.9 and 30.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Hood River?
Hood River’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Hood River”. 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.