Photo: User:Yuehai1981 · CC BY 4.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Klamath Falls than in 89% of U.S. towns
Graded on crimes Klamath Falls’ police reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores D for safety: #67 of 74 graded towns in Oregon. What’s more, the yearly rates were 5.1 violent crimes and 26.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 3.8 and 30.4 in the rest of Oregon.
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 Klamath Falls
A college town
Klamath Falls is home to Oregon Institute of Technology, with 4,510 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 11% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Klamath Falls’ 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.
Crime in Klamath Falls 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 | Klamath Falls | Rest of Oregon | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.1 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 5.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Klamath Falls’ police reported 341 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 5.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.8 in the rest of Oregon and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Klamath Falls property | Rest of Oregon property | Klamath Falls violent | Rest of Oregon violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25.8 | 36.6 | 5.1 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 26.3 | 32.9 | 5.8 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 26.9 | 30.9 | 4.8 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 25.6 | 27.4 | 4.6 | 3.7 |
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 Oregon.
671 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.
102 violent and 569 property, as reported to the FBI by Klamath Falls’ police.
16 people died in crashes on Klamath Falls’s roads in 2019–2023
Klamath Falls had 16 fatal crashes in five years, in which 16 people died; 4 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist.
That is 14.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Oregon towns of 5,000–25,000 people (3.5, 78 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.
Klamath Falls and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klamath Falls | D | 5.1 | 26.3 |
| Altamont | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Altamont is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Oregon towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klamath Falls | D | 5.1 | 26.3 |
| Lebanon | B | 1.5 | 9.2 |
| Sherwood | B− | 0.9 | 15.3 |
| Milwaukie | C+ | 2.1 | 13.6 |
| Ashland | C+ | 2.1 | 16.0 |
| Roseburg | D | 3.1 | 41.0 |
The five graded Oregon towns closest to Klamath Falls’ population (22,111), 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 Klamath Falls. 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 Klamath Falls’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (22,242 in 2025); our figure for Klamath Falls is 22,111 (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 Klamath Falls
Is Klamath Falls, OR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Klamath Falls reports more crime per resident than 89% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #67 of 74 in Oregon. Its police reported 5.1 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.8 in the rest of Oregon and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Klamath Falls?
5.1 violent and 26.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Oregon reports 3.8 and 30.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Klamath Falls?
Klamath Falls’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Klamath Falls”. 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.