Midwest City safety statistics span reported crime, emergency response, building oversight, and utility reliability. The latest crime figures here are for 2024, while many operational measures come from the city’s 2021 and 2022 municipal reports. Those sources describe different activities and periods, so the figures should be read as separate indicators rather than as one combined safety score.
Contents
- Reported crime levels and categories
- Police calls, staffing, and readiness
- Fire response and prevention
- Emergency communications and disaster readiness
- Code enforcement and building safety
- Utilities, stormwater, and infrastructure
Reported crime levels and categories
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation’s Crime in Oklahoma, 2024 lists the Midwest City Police Department’s reporting population as 57,961 in 2024. It records 3,543 total crimes and a total crime rate of 61.13 per 1,000 population for that year. The same report separates the total into 813 crimes against persons, 2,055 crimes against property, and 675 crimes against society. Source: Crime in Oklahoma, 2024, measurement period 2022–2024.
For context, the reporting population was 57,696 in 2023 and 57,826 in 2022. The total crime rate was 63.05 per 1,000 in 2023 and 63.15 per 1,000 in 2022. The department recorded 3,638 total crimes in 2023 and 3,652 in 2022.
| Reporting year | Reporting population | Total crimes | Total crime rate per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 57,961 | 3,543 | 61.13 |
| 2023 | 57,696 | 3,638 | 63.05 |
| 2022 | 57,826 | 3,652 | 63.15 |
The category counts also vary by year. In 2023, Midwest City recorded 886 crimes against persons, 2,203 against property, and 549 against society. In 2022, the corresponding counts were 811, 2,255, and 586. These are reported crime counts from the OSBI publication; they are not estimates or forecasts, and the publication’s 2022–2024 measurement period should remain attached to the figures when they are reused.
The reporting population also changed slightly across the three entries: 57,826 in 2022, 57,696 in 2023, and 57,961 in 2024. That context is important because a rate and a count answer different questions. The rate places the reported total against the listed reporting population, while the category counts show how the department grouped the recorded offenses. The supplied OSBI figures do not include a neighborhood breakdown, a victimization survey, or a separate measure of crimes that were not reported to police. They therefore work best as official reported-crime indicators for the stated years.
The 2024 category totals are also useful for understanding the composition of the reported total without adding unsupported calculations. Property crimes are listed as 2,055, persons crimes as 813, and society crimes as 675. The 2023 and 2022 entries preserve the same three-category structure, even though the counts differ. Readers comparing the years should use the source’s labels and avoid assuming that a category’s movement alone describes overall community risk.
Police calls, staffing, and readiness
The 2021 Midwest City Municipal Report says Midwest City police answered approximately 70,000 calls for service in 2021. The department investigated 5 classified homicides and added 15 officers in different phases of training. The report also says 90% of police staff were fully trained in crisis intervention during 2021.
The 2022 Midwest City Municipal Report reports more than 80,000 police calls in 2022, along with the hiring and training of 13 new officers. It says Part One dangerous crimes decreased 3% over the five years ending in 2022, according to the police chief’s report. That five-year comparison is a historical statement in the municipal report, not a new annual crime-rate calculation here.
The same 2022 report says approximately 90% of patrol officers and supervisors were certified in mental-health response. The department had 3 K-9 officers after adding a bomb-detection/apprehension K-9, and it trained 2 new polygraph examiners. Together, these measures describe staffing, specialist capacity, and training reported by the police department in 2021 and 2022; they do not establish current staffing levels beyond those periods.
Fire response and prevention
In 2021, Midwest City firefighters responded to 8,499 calls, and the fire department reported 52 structure fires. Fire personnel logged 28,000 hours of multidisciplinary training. The Fire Prevention Division conducted more than 1,700 inspections and reviewed 92 construction plans. These figures appear in the 2021 Midwest City Municipal Report.
The 2022 Midwest City Municipal Report records 8,642 firefighter calls and 223 fire incidents. Five new employees joined the city’s Fire team, while fire staff logged 24,000 hours of medical and fire training. The Fire Prevention Division conducted 1,172 inspections in 2022.
The two reports use different labels for some activity measures: 2021 includes a structure-fire count, while 2022 gives a fire-incident count. They should not be treated as a like-for-like trend without a shared definition. The response and training figures nevertheless show the scale of fire-service activity described for each year.
The training figures are likewise period markers. The 28,000 hours reported for 2021 were described as multidisciplinary training, while the 24,000 hours reported for 2022 were described as medical and fire training. Those descriptions should remain attached to the totals. The reports also separate response volume from prevention work: calls and incidents describe activity generated by emergencies, whereas inspections and construction-plan reviews describe work intended to identify or reduce hazards before an incident. Neither set of figures is a response-time statistic.
Emergency communications and disaster readiness
The city’s 2021 emergency-management figures include more than $6 million in FEMA reimbursement claims and 3 concurrent federally declared disasters. Emergency management also coordinated 2 public vaccination points of dispensing. These measures describe administrative and response activity during the 2021 reporting period in the 2021 Midwest City Municipal Report.
The Midwest City 9-1-1 Center processed 102,379 calls in 2021. The center reported delivering 3 babies by telephone and maintained 100% emergency medical dispatch certification. The call total covers emergency communications activity, while the certification figure describes the center’s reported status; neither should be read as a response-time measure.
For 2022, the 2022 Midwest City Municipal Report says emergency management received 2 Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management special-project grants. Dispatchers reported saving 6 lives through emergency medical dispatch. These reported outcomes and grants provide additional indicators of emergency-readiness work, but they do not replace a current assessment of dispatch performance.
The communications figures also show several distinct functions within emergency management. The 9-1-1 total measures calls processed by the center in 2021. Emergency medical dispatch certification describes a qualification status, and the baby deliveries and reported lives saved describe specific dispatch outcomes. FEMA reimbursement claims and special-project grants describe funding or administrative activity. Keeping those measures separate prevents a financial figure, a call volume, and an operational outcome from being mistaken for the same kind of safety indicator.
Code enforcement and building safety
Midwest City’s Code Enforcement division worked 7,079 new cases in 2021, according to the 2021 Midwest City Municipal Report. Its casework produced 456 contracts and 342 citations. The report does not define those contracts in the supplied figures, so the count is retained without adding an interpretation.
Community Development processed 3,230 permit applications in 2021 and completed 5,432 inspections. It issued 136 Certificates of Occupancy. These measures cover permitting, inspection, and occupancy activity during the same municipal-report period. They are administrative outputs rather than a quantified statement that every property or project met a particular safety standard.
The distinction matters for readers comparing local safety statistics. Crime counts describe incidents recorded by the police department; code-enforcement cases, citations, permits, inspections, and Certificates of Occupancy describe regulatory activity. Each measures a different part of the local safety system, and the supplied figures do not support combining them into one rate.
Utilities, stormwater, and infrastructure
Midwest City’s line-maintenance crews responded to 320 possible sewer blockages in 2021. The city recorded 21 sanitary sewer overflow bypasses, reported 11 water-main breaks, and completed 21 sewer-main repairs. These utility measures are from the 2021 Midwest City Municipal Report.
Preventive and location work was also quantified. The city inspected 92 miles of sewer line and performed preventive maintenance on 56 miles of sewer line in 2021. It processed 9,633 line-location service requests and replaced 21 fire hydrants. The figures describe completed work and reported events during 2021, not a forecast of future failures or a present-day condition assessment.
| 2021 infrastructure indicator | Reported measure |
|---|---|
| Possible sewer blockages | 320 |
| Sanitary sewer overflow bypasses | 21 |
| Water-main breaks | 11 |
| Sewer-main repairs | 21 |
| Sewer line inspected | 92 miles |
| Sewer line preventive maintenance | 56 miles |
| Line-location service requests | 9,633 |
| Fire hydrants replaced | 21 |
Taken together, the crime publication and municipal reports show why “safety” in Midwest City is broader than reported offenses alone. The OSBI figures provide annual crime counts and rates for 2022–2024. The city reports provide period-specific measures for police demand, fire activity, emergency communications, enforcement, inspections, and utility maintenance in 2021 and 2022. Because the sources cover different dates and definitions, comparisons are most reliable when each number is kept with its original source and measurement period.