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Safety in Nyssa · Not graded

Crime reported in Nyssa, OR

Nyssa’s police reported to the FBI for 2023 but not 2024 or 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025.

Violent crimes
12
reported to the FBI, 2023
Property crimes
37
reported to the FBI, 2023
Nearest graded town
113 mi
La Grande (C−)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 11 property crimes reported

And about 4 violent crimes, in 2023. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (11.4)Violent crime (3.7)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2023

Nyssa3.7
Rest of OR3.9
U.S. (FBI)3.9

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2023

Nyssa11.4
Rest of OR32.9
U.S. (FBI)19.5

Crimes reported to police in 2023 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

By year

The years Nyssa’s police reported

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Oregon. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.

Show as a table
YearNyssaRest of OregonNyssaRest of Oregon
202213.736.53.14.1
202311.432.93.73.9
2024not reported30.8not reported4.0
2025not reported27.4not reported3.7

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

49 crimes reported in 2023

12 violent and 37 property, as reported to the FBI by Nyssa’s police.

2023 offenses reported

Larceny / theft28
Burglary3
Vehicle theft6
Aggravated assault9
Robbery1
Rape1
Homicide1
Arson2
12
violent crimes
37
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Oregon towns with a Safety Grade

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
La GrandeC−113 mi3.322.6
PendletonD153 mi3.729.7
Milton-FreewaterC+158 mi2.515.6
HermistonD176 mi2.831.7
UmatillaB−181 mi1.910.9
BoardmanB−189 mi2.311.1

Straight-line distance from the center of Nyssa. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Nyssa.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Nyssa’s roads in 2019–2023

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 Nyssa’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Nyssa’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
per 100,000 a year · Oregon towns of 2,500–5,000: 2.5

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.

Next door

Nyssa and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

Nyssa
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

How to read these numbers

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 Nyssa. 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 Nyssa’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,246 in 2023); our figure for Nyssa is 3,257 (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 Nyssa

Is Nyssa, OR safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Nyssa. Nyssa’s police reported to the FBI for 2023 but not 2024 or 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. The nearest Oregon towns with a grade are La Grande (C−, 113 mi), Pendleton (D, 153 mi), Milton-Freewater (C+, 158 mi).

Who polices Nyssa?

Nyssa’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Nyssa”. 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, 2023, 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.