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Safety in Oakdale · Not graded

Crime in Oakdale: the figures, without a grade

Oakdale’s police reported to the FBI for 2025 but not 2023 or 2024, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. The closest graded town is South Fayette Township, 2 miles away, at A. Inside a 10-mile circle sit 26 graded neighbors.

Violent crimes
0
reported to the FBI, 2025
Property crimes
0
reported to the FBI, 2025
Nearest graded town
2 mi
South Fayette Township (A)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, no property crimes reported

Property crime (0)Violent crime (0)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Oakdale0.0
Rest of PA2.6
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Oakdale0.0
Rest of PA16.1
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

And no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

By year

The years Oakdale’s police reported

Show as a table
YearOakdaleRest of PennsylvaniaOakdaleRest of Pennsylvania
2022not reported30.2not reported6.9
2023not reported19.1not reported3.2
2024not reported17.4not reported2.9
20250.016.10.02.6

Crimes per 1,000 residents

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

What gets reported

0 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft0
Burglary0
Vehicle theft0
Aggravated assault0
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
0
violent crimes
0
property crimes

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

0 violent and 0 property, as reported to the FBI by Oakdale’s police.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Pennsylvania towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
South Fayette TownshipA2 mi0.72.9
North Fayette TownshipB−2 mi0.716.6
Collier TownshipB+3 mi0.411.2
Robinson TownshipB−5 mi0.815.6
BridgevilleB5 mi1.77.0
CarnegieB5 mi0.611.4

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

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

On the roads

One person died in crashes on Oakdale’s roads in 2019–2023

Oakdale had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died; 1 was a pedestrian.

That is about what is typical for Pennsylvania towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (7.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Oakdale’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Oakdale’s own rate (13.4) is context, not a ranking.

1
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
1
pedestrian among them
0
cyclists among them
13.4
per 100,000 a year · Pennsylvania towns of 2,500–5,000: 7.1

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

Oakdale and its neighbors

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
North Fayette TownshipB−0.716.6
South Fayette TownshipA0.72.9

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

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

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 Oakdale. 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 Oakdale’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,415 in 2025); our figure for Oakdale is 1,413 (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 Oakdale

Is Oakdale, PA safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Oakdale. The nearest Pennsylvania towns with a grade are South Fayette Township (A, 2 mi), North Fayette Township (B−, 2 mi), Collier Township (B+, 3 mi).

Who polices Oakdale?

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