Crime in Eugene, Oregon
Major crime in Eugene is 36% above the U.S. rate per resident: 11% higher for persons crimes and 42% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 25.0% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Eugene 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 Eugene
The middle half of Eugene residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 48 and 159; the typical (median) resident's is 80. The citywide figure (136) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5028.2%
- 50–10027.0%
- 100–20027.4%
- 200–40010.9%
- 400+6.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 25.0% in a year; across Oregon it fell 6.2%
Change in expected crimes, with Oregon as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Eugene against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
88 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Eugene; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Eugene has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, River Road (2 mi), is 41% below Eugene's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Eugene
What are the most common crimes in Eugene?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,109 a year), theft from vehicle (about 896 a year) and shoplifting (about 717 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 2.0 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. Eugene's figures add up its 117 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Eugene's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 50.8% 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: 170,206. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Eugene, Oregon." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/or/eugene
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