Photo: Glenn Scofield Williams · CC BY 2.0The Dalles records more property crime per head than 89% of U.S. towns
The rate the grade counts dropped 18% from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, on crimes The Dalles’ police reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C− for safety: #59 of 74 graded towns in Oregon. Recorded violent crimes ran at 3.3 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 28.2, against 3.8 and 30.4 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 The Dalles
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind The Dalles’ 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 (3.3) 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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | The Dalles property | Rest of Oregon property | The Dalles violent | Rest of Oregon violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 37.9 | 36.5 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 32.3 | 32.8 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 25.6 | 30.9 | 3.7 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 26.7 | 27.4 | 2.6 | 3.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Oregon.
Crime in The Dalles 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | The Dalles | Rest of Oregon | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
The Dalles’ police reported 156 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.8 in the rest of Oregon and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
465 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.
41 violent and 424 property, as reported to the FBI by The Dalles’ police.
No one died in a crash on The Dalles’s roads in 2019–2023
That is fewer than is typical for Oregon towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (3.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of The Dalles’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so The Dalles’s own rate (0.0) 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.
The Dalles and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dalles | C− | 3.3 | 28.2 |
| Chenoweth | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Chenoweth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dalles | C− | 3.3 | 28.2 |
| St. Helens | C+ | 2.9 | 9.7 |
| Cornelius | C+ | 2.7 | 14.1 |
| Dallas | C | 2.5 | 18.0 |
| Pendleton | D | 3.7 | 29.7 |
| Coos Bay | D− | 7.0 | 45.7 |
The five graded Oregon towns closest to The Dalles’ population (15,745), 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 The Dalles. 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 The Dalles’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (15,860 in 2025); our figure for The Dalles is 15,745 (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 The Dalles
Is The Dalles, OR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, The Dalles reports more crime per resident than 85% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #59 of 74 in Oregon. Its police reported 3.3 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 The Dalles?
3.3 violent and 28.2 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 The Dalles?
The Dalles’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “The Dalles”. 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.