Safest Counties in Oklahoma: 13 Ranked (2026)
The 13 Oklahoma counties where police report enough to the FBI to build a reliable rate, ranked by violent crime, with home prices, asking rents and incomes where available.
Oklahoma has 77 counties. Thirteen of them clear the reporting bar this page uses, and the gap between the quietest, Logan at 160 violent offenses per 100,000, and the busiest, Oklahoma at 691, is 4.3 to one. Beside each rate sits what homes there closed at over the last 12 months, from 38,139 closing records Resideline tracked across all 13 counties.
The crime rates here are built from the 2,534,962 residents those police agencies actually report on, over the months they reported. Each figure is a single county-wide figure, so treat this as a way to narrow a search rather than a verdict on any street.
We do not treat missing or conflicting crime data as zero. A county appears here only when its reporting clears our reliability threshold, and we set aside results that conflict materially with the state's own records. Whether a county is ranked depends on its crime reporting alone; whether it shows a price depends on whether Resideline tracked enough closings there.
The ranking
| # | County | Violent per 100k | Property per 100k | Median closed price | Median asking rent | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Logan | 160 | 646 | $324,500 | $1,610 | $81,339 |
| 2 | Rogers | 166 | 858 | $254,000 | $1,450 | $81,443 |
| 3 | Payne | 180 | 1,473 | $255,000 | $1,425 | $54,326 |
| 4 | Creek | 222 | 1,121 | $218,247 | $1,300 | $61,799 |
| 5 | Grady | 238 | 1,022 | $275,000 | $1,325 | $74,426 |
| 6 | Bryan | 254 | 1,455 | $233,500 | $1,300 | $60,458 |
| 7 | Washington | 314 | 1,946 | $213,500 | $1,250 | $67,652 |
| 8 | Pottawatomie | 394 | 1,674 | $208,560 | $1,150 | $61,709 |
| 9 | Garfield | 486 | 1,884 | $159,900 | $1,295 | $65,358 |
| 10 | Tulsa | 587 | 2,578 | $280,000 | $1,500 | $70,089 |
| 11 | Comanche | 594 | 1,836 | $165,000 | $1,150 | $62,306 |
| 12 | Muskogee | 616 | 2,202 | $185,000 | $1,100 | $55,536 |
| 13 | Oklahoma | 691 | 2,925 | $249,999 | $1,425 | $68,006 |
A closer look at the 12 safest counties
1. Logan County
Logan's violent crime rate is 160 per 100,000 residents, the lowest quarter among the Oklahoma counties Resideline can measure. That is below the median comparable US county, which records 245. The median home closed at $324,500, roughly 139 percent of the middle figure for these counties. Low crime and high prices arrive together here, which is the arrangement buyers assume is universal and is not. Measured against local pay it is one of the harder counties on this list to buy into, at 4.0 times median household income. Its property rate is also among the lowest here, 646 per 100,000, or 0.5 times the median comparable US county. Resideline publishes a separate page for Guthrie, the market with the most tracked closings in this county's ZIP codes.
2. Rogers County
Police in Rogers reported 166 violent offenses per 100,000 people, putting it in the lowest quarter of this list. That is below the median comparable US county, which records 245. At $254,000, its median closed price is unremarkable against the rest of this list. A home costs 3.1 times the median household income there, the lowest quarter of this list. Its property rate is also among the lowest here, 858 per 100,000, or 0.7 times the median comparable US county. The median rental listing asks $1,450 a month. For prices at street level, see Claremore, the market with the most tracked closings in this county's ZIP codes.
3. Payne County
At 180 violent offenses per 100,000, Payne sits in the lowest quarter of the places on this list. That is below the median comparable US county, which records 245. The median closed price, $255,000, sits near the center of the counties measured. Against what households there earn, a home costs 4.7 times median income, in the top quarter of this list. Property offenses run at 1,473 per 100,000, in the middle of this list. The median rental listing asks $1,425 a month. Resideline publishes a separate page for Stillwater, the market with the most tracked closings in this county's ZIP codes.
4. Creek County
Police in Creek reported 222 violent offenses per 100,000 people, putting it in the lowest quarter of this list. That is close to the median comparable US county, which records 245. At $218,247, its median closed price is unremarkable against the rest of this list. Asking rents of $1,300 a month against that price put it in the top quarter of this list for gross return. Property crime is low too, at 1,121 per 100,000, the bottom quarter of this list and 0.9 times the median comparable US county.
5. Grady County
At 238 violent offenses per 100,000, Grady sits in the middle range of the places on this list. That is close to the median comparable US county, which records 245. A median closing price of $275,000 puts it at roughly 118 percent of the middle figure for this list. Its property rate is among the lowest here, 1,022 per 100,000, or 0.9 times the median comparable US county. Asking rents run about $1,325 a month. For prices at street level, see Blanchard, the market with the most tracked closings in this county's ZIP codes.
6. Bryan County
Bryan's violent crime rate is 254 per 100,000 residents, the middle range among the Oklahoma counties Resideline can measure. That is close to the median comparable US county, which records 245. At $233,500, its median closed price is unremarkable against the rest of this list. Its property rate, 1,455 per 100,000, sits in the middle of these counties. The median rental listing asks $1,300 a month.
7. Washington County
Washington records 314 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, which places it in the middle range of the Oklahoma counties measured here. That is 1.3 times the median comparable US county, which records 245, though still below the Oklahoma statewide rate of 539 per 100,000 in the same data. Homes there closed at a median of $213,500, close to the middle of this list. A typical home costs 3.2 years of the median household's income, the low end of this list. Its property rate, 1,946 per 100,000, sits in the middle of these counties. Asking rents run about $1,250 a month. Resideline publishes a separate page for Bartlesville, the market with the most tracked closings in this county's ZIP codes.
8. Pottawatomie County
At 394 violent offenses per 100,000, Pottawatomie sits in the middle range of the places on this list. That is 1.6 times the median comparable US county, which records 245, though still below the Oklahoma statewide rate of 539 per 100,000 in the same data. At $208,560, its median closed price is unremarkable against the rest of this list. Its property rate, 1,674 per 100,000, sits in the middle of these counties. The median rental listing asks $1,150 a month. For prices at street level, see Shawnee, the market with the most tracked closings in this county's ZIP codes.
9. Garfield County
Garfield's violent crime rate is 486 per 100,000 residents, the middle range among the Oklahoma counties Resideline can measure. That is 2.0 times the median comparable US county, which records 245, though still below the Oklahoma statewide rate of 539 per 100,000 in the same data. A median closing price of $159,900 puts it at roughly 68 percent of the middle figure for this list. Local incomes go further here than almost anywhere else on this list, with homes at 2.4 times median household income. Asking rents of $1,295 a month against that price put it in the top quarter of this list for gross return. Its property rate, 1,884 per 100,000, sits in the middle of these counties. Resideline publishes a separate page for Enid, the market with the most tracked closings in this county's ZIP codes.
10. Tulsa County
Tulsa records 587 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, which places it in the middle range of the Oklahoma counties measured here. That is 2.4 times the median comparable US county, which records 245, and above the Oklahoma statewide rate of 539 per 100,000 in the same data. Homes there closed at a median of $280,000, about 120 percent of the median across this list. The gap between local wages and local prices is wide: 4.0 times household income, in the top quarter of these counties. Property crime is the higher of its two figures at 2,578 per 100,000, the top quarter of this list and 2.2 times the median comparable US county. Asking rents run about $1,500 a month. For prices at street level, see Broken Arrow, the market with the most tracked closings in this county's ZIP codes.
11. Comanche County
At 594 violent offenses per 100,000, Comanche sits in the highest quarter of the places on this list. That is 2.4 times the median comparable US county, which records 245, and above the Oklahoma statewide rate of 539 per 100,000 in the same data. The median home closed at $165,000, roughly 71 percent of the middle figure for these counties. A home costs 2.6 times the median household income there, the lowest quarter of this list. Asking rents of $1,150 a month against that price put it in the top quarter of this list for gross return. Its property rate, 1,836 per 100,000, sits in the middle of these counties. Resideline publishes a separate page for Lawton, the market with the most tracked closings in this county's ZIP codes.
12. Muskogee County
Muskogee's violent crime rate is 616 per 100,000 residents, the highest quarter among the Oklahoma counties Resideline can measure. That is 2.5 times the median comparable US county, which records 245, and above the Oklahoma statewide rate of 539 per 100,000 in the same data. Buyers there paid a median of $185,000, some 79 percent of the level across the counties measured. Median household income is $55,536, roughly 85 percent of the level across this list. Its property rate of 2,202 per 100,000 is in the top quarter here, and 1.9 times the median comparable US county. At $1,100 a month in asking rent, the gross return here is in the top quarter of the counties measured.
Does safety set the price in Oklahoma?
Somewhat, and less than you would expect. The safest third of these counties runs 17 percent above the highest-crime third on price. The same safe places also earn 10 percent more, so income explains part of the raw gap. This state-level comparison does not isolate density, housing mix or other factors that may explain the remainder.
It is the same pattern our national study found across 688 counties, where crime stopped predicting prices once income was accounted for. The method is set out in our study, Does Crime Actually Lower Home Prices?.
That is a county-level result. Within a county, research at the scale of a block or a neighborhood finds that violent crime does lower the value of the homes nearest to it, so use these figures to compare counties, not streets.
Where safety and affordability overlap in Oklahoma
Two of the 4 safest counties on this list also cost no more than the list's median once prices are set against local incomes: Rogers (166 violent per 100,000, a home at 3.1 times median household income); Creek (222 violent per 100,000, a home at 3.5 times median household income). Against what households there earn, those are the counties where a low crime rate is not being charged for.
The counties we cannot rank
Larger Oklahoma places are missing from the table above. Every one with more than 150,000 residents is listed here with the reason.
- •Cleveland, with about 304,000 residents, reports 74 percent of its population through the FBI program, below the 90 percent we require.
- •Canadian, with about 182,000 residents, reports 50 percent of its population through the FBI program, below the 90 percent we require.
How to read this list
The right way to use this is to narrow the list, then check the address. Averages at this scale hide the variation that actually matters once you are choosing between two houses.
Prices and rents are as of September 9, 2026, from closings and rental listings Resideline tracks over the previous 12 months; a price is shown where at least 100 closings were tracked and a rent where at least 50 listings were. Rent figures are the median asking rent on listings, not lease figures. Crime is the 2025 FBI Crime Data Explorer release, measured for the whole county over the months each agency reported, and violent crime means murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Household income is the Census SAIPE 2024 estimate of the county's median household income; population is the Census 2024 estimate. Where this page compares a rate with the median comparable US county, that figure (245 violent and 1188 property offenses per 100,000) is the median across the 874 US counties with at least 50,000 residents whose agencies reported on 90 percent or more of them for the year.
Sources and related pages
- •Crime: FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency-level offense counts for 2025, aggregated by county over the months each agency reported.
- •Income: Census SAIPE 2024, county median household income.
- •Population: Census county population estimates, vintage 2024.
- •Prices and rents: Resideline's tracked closings and rental listings, 12 months to September 2026.
- •Related: Safest counties by state; Does crime actually lower home prices?; Oklahoma housing market; Safest counties in Arkansas; Safest counties in Colorado; Safest counties in Kansas; Safest counties in Missouri; Safest counties in New Mexico; Safest counties in Texas.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the safest county in Oklahoma?
Of the 13 Oklahoma counties measured here, Logan County records the lowest violent crime rate at 160 offenses per 100,000 residents, against 245 for the median comparable US county. Homes there closed at a median of $324,500 over the last 12 months.
Is this every county in Oklahoma?
No. It covers 13 of the state's 77 counties, the ones where police agencies report at least 90 percent of the population to the FBI, the area has at least 50,000 residents, and the resulting rate falls inside the sanity bounds we apply. Whether Resideline has enough sales there decides only whether a price is shown. The larger places that miss those bars are listed on the page with the reason.
Does a lower crime rate mean higher home prices?
Less than most people assume. Comparing the safest third of these counties with the highest-crime third, the median closed price is 17 percent higher and household income 10 percent higher. Across 688 US counties we found that once income and other county characteristics are controlled for, a county's crime rate stops predicting its home prices. At the scale of a block, the research says violent crime does lower nearby values.
Is this crime rate for my neighborhood?
No. The FBI publishes these figures for whole counties, so every part of a county carries the same number here, from its densest district to its farmland. It is useful for narrowing a search and not a substitute for looking at a specific address.
Are these rents asking rents or lease rents?
They are the median asking rent on rental listings in the county over the last 12 months. That is what landlords advertised, a guide to the market rather than a lease figure.
About the author
Jeffrey Batista
Jeffrey Batista is the founder of Resideline, a real estate technology company building institutional grade valuation and investment analysis tools for real estate investors.
A software engineer with more than 10 years of experience, Jeffrey has worked across full stack development, infrastructure, data engineering, machine learning, and large scale systems. He left his engineering career to build Resideline full time.
Jeffrey is also a real estate investor with nearly a decade of hands on experience buying, renovating, managing, and analyzing residential properties. His experience on both sides of the industry, as an engineer and an investor, led him to build Resideline after seeing how fragmented and outdated many of the tools available to individual investors were.
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