CrimeMetric

Crime in Okemah, Oklahoma

Major crime in Okemah is 48% above the U.S. rate per resident: 28% higher for persons crimes and 1.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.0% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
148
48% above the U.S. rate
20% above the Oklahoma rate
down 9.0% in a year
Persons crimes
128
28% above the U.S. rate
about the Oklahoma rate
down 4.5% in a year
Property crimes
153
1.5 times the U.S. rate
25% above the Oklahoma rate
down 9.8% in a year
Social disorder
233
2.3 times the U.S. rate
1.9 times the Oklahoma rate
down 6.8% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 4.4 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Okemah for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Okemah

Okemah is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 133; the middle half of residents live where it is between 133 and 134.

Map of Okemah, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20076.1%
  • 200–40023.9%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm173
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am122
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm165
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am120
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.0% in a year; across Oklahoma it fell 6.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.0%OK -6.2%-15.4%OK -12.3%
Persons crimes-4.5%OK -2.9%0.0%OK +0.3%
Property crimes-9.8%OK -6.9%-18.2%OK -15.2%
Social disorder-6.8%OK -4.8%-9.3%OK -5.4%

Change in expected crimes, with Oklahoma as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Okemah against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

182 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Okemah; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Okemah, OK3,366148
Alma, GA3,363134
Sparks, TX3,36667
Tipton, IA3,37335
Nahant, MA3,35924

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Okemah has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Henryetta (18 mi), is 43% below Okemah's rate.

Okmulgee24 mi223
Shawnee34 mi160
Holdenville24 mi149
Okemah148
Seminole24 mi138
Wewoka22 mi126
Bristow28 mi119
Stroud30 mi101
Henryetta18 mi85

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Okemah

What are the most common crimes in Okemah?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 25 a year), burglary (about 19 a year) and shoplifting (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.4 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Okemah's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Okemah has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 23.9% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 3,366. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Okemah, Oklahoma." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ok/okemah

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100