East Orange, NJ has a D safety grade (35/100) with a violent crime rate of 486 per 100,000, 38% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
East Orange, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
At 71,138 residents, East Orange is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NJ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
East Orange, NJ carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 38% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Orange, NJ shows violent crime at 486.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,952.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
486.4/100K violent
1952.5/100K property
+38% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for East Orange, NJ
Position in the state cohort
East Orange reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 486.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Orange ranks 15 of 417 — above 402 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +613.7% against the cohort median of 68.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
East Orange's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to East Orange's 486.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Orange City (454.2), Millville (453.5), Irvington (443.3), Vineland (437.2). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 19.9% of the 1,735 Part I offenses reported in East Orange for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 12.8 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 63.4% of reported property offenses in East Orange, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (76) and motor vehicle theft (433). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 457.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 486.4 in 2024 (+6.4%). The highest observed value was 486.4 in 2024 and the lowest 279.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate East Orange's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
East Orange's 2024 municipal footprint
East Orange leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,420.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-2%
1991.8 → 1952.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.3%
485.1 → 486.4/100K
Property offenses lead East Orange's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
1,389
1952.5
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
880
1237
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
433
608.7
-
Burglary
76
106.8
-
Arson
5
7
-
Violent Crime
346
486.4
215.7
Aggravated Assault
233
327.5
-
Robbery
82
115.3
-
Rape
26
36.5
-
Murder
5
7
-
East Orange Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
East Orange property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
East Orange Police Department
Reporting agency for East Orange NIBRS-participating
East Orange Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East Orange's 1,735 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to East Orange in population. Their populations run from 62,342 to 78,685, against 71,138 here. Or use our
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East Orange at 486.4/100K violent and 1,952.5/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, East Orange reported 346 violent crimes and 1,389 property crimes, for a total of 1,735 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in East Orange?
From 2023 to 2024, East Orange's violent crime rate increased by 0.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2%.
What is the most common crime in East Orange?
The most common crime type in East Orange is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.7% of all reported crimes (880 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: East Orange's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Orange, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.