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Sweet Home, OR crime analytics

Source & Methodology

Analytics built by:   Location, Inc.

Raw data sources:   18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S.

Date(s) & Update Frequency:   "Reflects 2023 calendar year; released from FBI in October 2024 (latest available). Updated annually." Where is 2024 data?

Methodology:   Our nationwide meta-analysis overcomes the issues inherent in any crime database, including non-reporting and reporting errors. This is possible by associating the 9.4 million reported crimes in the U.S, including over 2 million geocoded point locations…. Read more about Scout's Crime Data

With a crime rate of 36 per one thousand residents, Sweet Home has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 28. Within Oregon, more than 91% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Sweet Home.

Importantly, when you compare Sweet Home to other communities of similar population, then Sweet Home crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Sweet Home does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Sweet Home does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Sweet Home.

From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Sweet Home occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Sweet Home; such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder; is 1 in 365. This equates to a rate of 3 per one thousand inhabitants.

In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Sweet Home is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Sweet Home, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 30, which is a rate of 33 per one thousand population.

Sweet Home Crime Data

total Crime Index

6

(100 is safest)


Safer than 6% of U.S. cities.

Sweet Home Annual Crimes

  Violent Property Total

Number of Crimes

28

339

367

Crime Rate
(per 1,000 residents)

2.74

33.22

35.96

Violent Crime

Violent Crime Comparison (per 1,000 residents)

20 15 10 5 0
2.74
3.26
National Median: 4
    Sweet Home
    Oregon

Chances of Becoming a Victim of a Violent Crime

1 in 365

in Sweet Home

1 in 306

in Oregon

Sweet Home Violent Crimes

Population: 10,206
Murder Rape Robbery Assault
Report Total 0 6 5 17
Rate per 1,000 0.00 0.59 0.49 1.67

United States Violent Crimes

Population: 334,914,895
Murder Rape Robbery Assault
Report Total 19,252 127,216 222,795 884,550
Rate per 1,000 0.06 0.38 0.67 2.64

Property Crime

Property Crime Comparison (per 1,000 residents)

100 75 50 25 0
33.22
25.91
National Median: 19
    Sweet Home
    Oregon

Chances of Becoming a Victim of a Property Crime

1 in 30

in Sweet Home

1 in 39

in Oregon

Property Crimes

Population: 10,206
burglary theft motor vehicle theft
Report Total 30 288 21
Rate per 1,000 2.94 28.22 2.06

United States Property Crimes

Population: 334,914,895
burglary theft motor vehicle theft
Report Total 839,563 4,512,064 1,067,522
Rate per 1,000 2.51 13.47 3.19

Sweet Home Crimes Per Square Mile

200 150 100 50 0
64
55
National Median: 26.5
    Sweet Home
    Oregon

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