Photo: M.O. Stevens · Public domainNorth Plains sees less crime per resident than 68% of U.S. towns
Its letter for safety is B+, worked out from crimes North Plains’ police reported over 2023 to 2025: #5 of 74 graded towns in Oregon. What’s more, recorded violent crimes ran at 1.2 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 7.4, against 3.8 and 30.4 in the rest of Oregon. Violent crime here is lower than in 63% of U.S. towns; property crime, lower than in 67%.
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 North Plains
Among Oregon towns, higher
Oregon’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so North Plains’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 93% of the 74 Oregon towns we grade, against 68% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind North Plains’ 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 lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | North Plains | Rest of Oregon | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.9 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.8 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.2 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
North Plains’ police reported 12 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.2 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 North Plains 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | North Plains property | Rest of Oregon property | North Plains violent | Rest of Oregon violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13.2 | 36.5 | 0.9 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 7.4 | 32.9 | 0.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 11.0 | 30.9 | 1.8 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 3.8 | 27.4 | 1.2 | 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.
17 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.
4 violent and 13 property, as reported to the FBI by North Plains’ police.
One person died in crashes on North Plains’s roads in 2019–2023
North Plains had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 North Plains’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so North Plains’s own rate (5.8) 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.
North Plains and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Plains | B+ | 1.2 | 7.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Oregon towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Myrtle Creek | C | 2.1 | 22.1 |
The five graded Oregon towns closest to North Plains’ population (3,414), 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 North Plains. 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 North Plains’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,419 in 2025); our figure for North Plains is 3,414 (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 North Plains
Is North Plains, OR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, North Plains reports less crime per resident than 68% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #5 of 74 in Oregon. Its police reported 1.2 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 North Plains?
1.2 violent and 7.4 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 North Plains?
North Plains’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “North Plains”. 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.