Rice Brothers and Adams Building · Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 3.0More property crime is recorded per resident in Myrtle Creek than in 81% of U.S. towns
Myrtle Creek grades C for safety overall (#42 of 74 graded towns in Oregon): more crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Still, in a usual year, 2.1 violent crimes and 22.1 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Oregon, 3.8 and 30.4.
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 Myrtle Creek
Among Oregon towns, closer to the middle
Oregon’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Myrtle Creek’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 43% of the 74 Oregon towns we grade, against 27% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Myrtle Creek’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 (2.1) 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Myrtle Creek | Rest of Oregon | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.0 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.6 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Myrtle Creek’s police reported 22 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.8 in the rest of Oregon and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Myrtle Creek 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Myrtle Creek property | Rest of Oregon property | Myrtle Creek violent | Rest of Oregon violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 27.8 | 36.5 | 2.0 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 25.0 | 32.8 | 1.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 25.4 | 30.8 | 2.6 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 16.0 | 27.4 | 2.6 | 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.
65 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.
9 violent and 56 property, as reported to the FBI by Myrtle Creek’s police.
One person died in crashes on Myrtle Creek’s roads in 2019–2023
Myrtle Creek had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
That is about what is typical for Oregon towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (2.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Myrtle Creek’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Myrtle Creek’s own rate (5.7) 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.
Myrtle Creek and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myrtle Creek | C | 2.1 | 22.1 |
| Tri-City | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Tri-City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myrtle Creek | C | 2.1 | 22.1 |
| North Plains | B+ | 1.2 | 7.4 |
| Hubbard | B+ | 1.1 | 8.8 |
| Oakridge | B | 1.9 | 8.0 |
| Coquille | B | 1.2 | 11.0 |
| Reedsport | C+ | 2.4 | 15.2 |
The five graded Oregon towns closest to Myrtle Creek’s population (3,481), 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 Myrtle Creek. 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 Myrtle Creek’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,502 in 2025); our figure for Myrtle Creek is 3,481 (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 Myrtle Creek
Is Myrtle Creek, OR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Myrtle Creek reports more crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #42 of 74 in Oregon. Its police reported 2.1 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 Myrtle Creek?
2.1 violent and 22.1 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 Myrtle Creek?
Myrtle Creek’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Myrtle Creek”. 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.