Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Roseburg has more crime per resident than nine in ten U.S. towns
Graded on crimes Roseburg’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores D for safety: #69 of 74 graded towns in Oregon. What’s more, violent crime here is higher than in 73% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 96%. The yearly rates were 3.1 violent crimes and 41.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 3.9 and 30.3 in the rest of Oregon. The crimes the grade counts held steady per resident from 2023 to 2025.
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 Roseburg
A job center
Roseburg has 17,909 jobs based in town for 23,693 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Roseburg’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 (3.1) 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.
Crime in Roseburg 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
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| Year | Roseburg | Rest of Oregon | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.2 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Roseburg’s police reported 219 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Oregon and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
How crime in Roseburg has moved
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| Year | Roseburg property | Rest of Oregon property | Roseburg violent | Rest of Oregon violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 47.5 | 36.4 | 3.5 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 43.9 | 32.7 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 37.7 | 30.8 | 2.2 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 41.3 | 27.3 | 3.7 | 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.
1,072 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.
88 violent and 984 property, as reported to the FBI by Roseburg’s police.
11 people died in crashes on Roseburg’s roads in 2019–2023
Roseburg had 11 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 4 were pedestrians. 2 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 9.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Oregon towns of 5,000–25,000 people (3.5, 78 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.
Roseburg and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roseburg | D | 3.1 | 41.0 |
| Roseburg North | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Roseburg North 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roseburg | D | 3.1 | 41.0 |
| West Linn | B+ | 0.5 | 9.0 |
| Milwaukie | C+ | 2.1 | 13.6 |
| Ashland | C+ | 2.1 | 16.0 |
| Forest Grove | C | 3.8 | 12.8 |
| Klamath Falls | D | 5.1 | 26.3 |
The five graded Oregon towns closest to Roseburg’s population (23,693), 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 Roseburg. 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 Roseburg’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (23,827 in 2025); our figure for Roseburg is 23,693 (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 Roseburg
Is Roseburg, OR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Roseburg reports more crime per resident than 91% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #69 of 74 in Oregon. Its police reported 3.1 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Oregon and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Roseburg?
3.1 violent and 41.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Oregon reports 3.9 and 30.3; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Roseburg?
Roseburg’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Roseburg”. 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.