Orange Beach, AL has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 357 per 100,000, 2% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Orange Beach is a small municipal reporter (8,673 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Orange Beach, AL carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 2% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Orange Beach, AL shows violent crime at 357.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,844.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 2% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 237.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 357.4 in 2024 (+50.8%). The highest observed value was 453.0 in 2023 and the lowest 237.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Orange Beach's 357.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Stevenson (353.4), Uniontown (364.4), Notasulga (348.4), Brent (348.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 93.1% of reported property offenses in Orange Beach, against a cohort median of 74.2%. The remainder is burglary (10) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 357.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Orange Beach ranks 94 of 263 — above 169 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +67.4% against the cohort median of 213.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Orange Beach'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 14.7 Census sq mi, Orange Beach logged 10.9 property and 2.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Orange Beach's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 191 offenses; mix index 6,306).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Orange Beach offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 160 | 1844.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 149 | 1718 |
| Burglary | 10 | 115.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 11.5 |
| Arson | 1 | 11.5 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 357.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 26 | 299.8 |
| Rape | 5 | 57.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,329 | 237 | 2101.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 6,440 | 248.4 | 3043.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,530 | 363.4 | 2461.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,610 | 453 | 2171.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,673 | 357.4 | 1844.8 |
Orange Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Orange Beach's 191 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Alabama cities closest to Orange Beach in population. Their populations run from 8,294 to 9,250, against 8,673 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Orange Beach sits at 357.4/100K violent (grade C); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Orange Beach reported 31 violent crimes and 160 property crimes, for a total of 191 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Orange Beach's violent crime rate decreased by 21.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.1%.
The most common crime type in Orange Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.0% of all reported crimes (149 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Orange Beach is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Orange Beach's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Orange Beach, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Orange Beach is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (8,673 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.