Crime in Poteau, Oklahoma
Major crime in Poteau is 38% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 33% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Intimidation and burglary stand out most, at about 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Poteau for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Poteau
The middle half of Poteau residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 127 and 153; the typical (median) resident's is 139.
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Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.8% in a year; across Oklahoma it fell 6.2%
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.
Poteau against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
300 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Poteau; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Poteau has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pocola (14 mi), is 78% below Poteau's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Poteau
What are the most common crimes in Poteau?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 79 a year), shoplifting (about 41 a year) and aggravated assault (about 40 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.3 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. Poteau's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Poteau has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 69.0% 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: 9,604. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Poteau, Oklahoma." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ok/poteau
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