CrimeMetric

Crime in Happy Valley, Oregon

Major crime in Happy Valley is 39% below the U.S. rate per resident: 72% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
61
39% below the U.S. rate
55% below the Oregon rate
down 9.6% in a year
Persons crimes
28
72% below the U.S. rate
71% below the Oregon rate
down 15.5% in a year
Property crimes
68
32% below the U.S. rate
53% below the Oregon rate
down 9.0% in a year
Social disorder
21
79% below the U.S. rate
75% below the Oregon rate
down 12.8% 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

Shoplifting stands out most, at 48% above the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Happy Valley

The middle half of Happy Valley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 138; the typical (median) resident's is 29. The citywide figure (61) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Happy Valley, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5061.0%
  • 50–10011.2%
  • 100–20027.8%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 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 weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm59
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am61
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm64
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am61
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.6% in a year; across Oregon it fell 6.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.6%OR -6.2%-11.2%OR -15.1%
Persons crimes-15.5%OR -4.6%+0.3%OR -4.3%
Property crimes-9.0%OR -6.5%-12.3%OR -16.7%
Social disorder-12.8%OR -5.9%-5.5%OR -9.2%

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.

Similar-size places

Happy Valley against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,275 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Happy Valley; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Hays, KS21,63168
Dixon, CA21,69467
Happy Valley, OR21,68361
Gardner, MA21,70457
Sartell, MN21,77055

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

Nearby places

Happy Valley has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Damascus (3 mi), is 18% below Happy Valley's rate.

Portland7 mi343
Oak Grove6 mi155
Gresham6 mi146
Milwaukie5 mi97
Gladstone5 mi96
Oatfield4 mi64
Happy Valley61
Damascus3 mi50

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

Questions about crime in Happy Valley

What are the most common crimes in Happy Valley?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 102 a year), other larceny (about 62 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 21 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 48% above 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. Happy Valley's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Happy Valley has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 42.5% 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: 21,683. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Happy Valley, Oregon." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/or/happy-valley

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100