CrimeMetric

Crime in Prineville, Oregon

Major crime in Prineville is 27% below the U.S. rate per resident: 45% higher for persons crimes and 42% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.5% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
73
27% below the U.S. rate
46% below the Oregon rate
down 6.5% in a year
Persons crimes
145
45% above the U.S. rate
50% above the Oregon rate
down 3.5% in a year
Property crimes
58
42% below the U.S. rate
60% below the Oregon rate
down 8.1% in a year
Social disorder
67
33% below the U.S. rate
18% below the Oregon rate
down 5.2% 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

Aggravated assault stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Prineville 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 Prineville

The middle half of Prineville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 54 and 97; the typical (median) resident's is 68.

Map of Prineville, 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.
  • 0–5024.3%
  • 50–10053.6%
  • 100–20022.1%
  • 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 weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm81
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am70
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm68
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am63
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 6.5% in a year; across Oregon it fell 6.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-6.5%OR -6.2%-2.1%OR -15.1%
Persons crimes-3.5%OR -4.6%+8.9%OR -4.3%
Property crimes-8.1%OR -6.5%-8.3%OR -16.7%
Social disorder-5.2%OR -5.9%+2.1%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

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

1,045 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Prineville; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Flowood, MS11,78387
Fenton, MI11,78184
Prineville, OR11,78773
Cahokia, IL11,79651
Fostoria, OH11,78043

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

Nearby places

Prineville has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Redmond (17 mi), is 1.5 times Prineville's rate.

The Dalles91 mi153
Redmond17 mi114
Bend29 mi84
Madras26 mi83
Prineville73
Oakridge90 mi58

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

Questions about crime in Prineville

What are the most common crimes in Prineville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 47 a year), other larceny (about 41 a year) and shoplifting (about 30 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 1.7 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. Prineville's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Prineville has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% 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: 11,787. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Prineville, Oregon." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/or/prineville

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100