Crime in Portland, Oregon
Major crime in Portland is 3.4 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.2 times for persons crimes and 3.7 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.6% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 5.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Portland 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 Portland
The middle half of Portland residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 156 and 363; the typical (median) resident's is 229. The citywide figure (343) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.5%
- 50–1007.3%
- 100–20032.7%
- 200–40039.5%
- 400+20.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Lowest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.6% 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.
Portland against U.S. places with 500,000 to 1 million residents
None of the 25 other places of this size has a higher major-crime index than Portland; the middle of the group is 190. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Portland 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, Milwaukie (5 mi), is 72% below Portland's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Portland
What are the most common crimes in Portland?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 10,745 a year), other larceny (about 7,845 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 7,805 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 5.3 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. Portland's figures add up its 496 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Portland has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 89.3% 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: 632,319. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Portland, Oregon." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/or/portland
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Milwaukie5 mi97
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