Photo: Drown Soda · CC BY-SA 4.0For property crime, La Grande trails 82% of U.S. towns per resident
In a usual year, 3.3 violent crimes and 22.6 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Oregon, 3.8 and 30.4. By contrast, on the record of crimes La Grande’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C− for safety: #49 of 74 graded towns in 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 La Grande
Among Oregon towns, closer to the middle
Oregon’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so La Grande’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 34% of the 74 Oregon towns we grade, against 20% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
La Grande is home to Eastern Oregon University, with 1,326 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 7% 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 La Grande’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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.3) 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 La Grande 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 3 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 | La Grande | Rest of Oregon | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
La Grande’s police reported 128 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.3 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 | La Grande property | Rest of Oregon property | La Grande violent | Rest of Oregon violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 24.7 | 36.5 | 2.8 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 21.0 | 32.9 | 4.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 26.7 | 30.9 | 2.5 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 20.1 | 27.4 | 3.1 | 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.
303 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.
40 violent and 263 property, as reported to the FBI by La Grande’s police.
No one died in a crash on La Grande’s roads in 2019–2023
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 La Grande’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so La Grande’s own rate (0.0) 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.
La Grande and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Grande | C− | 3.3 | 22.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Oregon towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Grande | C− | 3.3 | 22.6 |
| Sandy | B | 0.8 | 13.1 |
| Monmouth | B− | 1.5 | 11.0 |
| St. Helens | C+ | 2.9 | 9.7 |
| Gladstone | C+ | 1.7 | 16.5 |
| Cornelius | C+ | 2.7 | 14.1 |
The five graded Oregon towns closest to La Grande’s population (12,985), 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 La Grande. 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 La Grande’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (13,071 in 2025); our figure for La Grande is 12,985 (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 La Grande
Is La Grande, OR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, La Grande reports more crime per resident than 80% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #49 of 74 in Oregon. Its police reported 3.3 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 La Grande?
3.3 violent and 22.6 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 La Grande?
La Grande’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “La Grande”. 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.