Photo: User:CookieMonster755 · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Medford records more crime than 92% of U.S. towns
The crimes the grade counts held steady per resident from 2023 to 2025. It grades D for safety on crimes Medford’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #70 of 74 graded towns in Oregon. Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Add to that, the yearly rates were 4.3 violent crimes and 37.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 3.8 and 30.1 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 Medford
2 of the 2 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 2 Oregon towns on Medford’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Central Point (B), Phoenix (C−). Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Medford’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.
Crime in Medford 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 4 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
Show as a table
| Year | Medford | Rest of Oregon | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Medford’s police reported 1,105 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.8 in the rest of Oregon and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
How crime in Medford has moved
Show as a table
| Year | Medford property | Rest of Oregon property | Medford violent | Rest of Oregon violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 41.0 | 36.3 | 3.7 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 38.5 | 32.6 | 4.0 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 38.3 | 30.6 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
| 2025 | 36.8 | 27.1 | 4.0 | 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.
3,522 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.
347 violent and 3,175 property, as reported to the FBI by Medford’s police.
21 people died in crashes on Medford’s roads in 2019–2023
Medford had 21 fatal crashes in five years, in which 21 people died; 7 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist. 5 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 4.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Oregon towns of 25,000–100,000 people (3.5, 21 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.
Medford and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medford | D | 4.3 | 37.8 |
| Central Point | B | 1.6 | 10.4 |
| Phoenix | C− | 2.5 | 27.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Oregon towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medford | D | 4.3 | 37.8 |
| Bend | C+ | 1.8 | 14.2 |
| Corvallis | C− | 1.8 | 25.0 |
| Hillsboro | C− | 3.0 | 22.9 |
| Beaverton | C− | 3.0 | 24.1 |
| Gresham | C− | 3.9 | 25.8 |
The five graded Oregon towns closest to Medford’s population (86,494), 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 Medford. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Medford’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (86,298 in 2025); our figure for Medford is 86,494 (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 Medford
Is Medford, OR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Medford reports more crime per resident than 92% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #70 of 74 in Oregon. Its police reported 4.3 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 Medford?
4.3 violent and 37.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Oregon reports 3.8 and 30.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Medford in 2025?
Medford’s police reported 2 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 2.3 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Medford safer than Central Point?
Central Point reports less crime per resident than Medford: Central Point grades B for safety and Medford D. Central Point’s police reported 1.6 violent and 10.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Medford?
Medford’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Medford”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
Heads-up board
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Please don’t name or describe individuals. In an emergency, call 911.
Neighbors looking out for each other in Medford.
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.