Orange City, NJ carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 29% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Orange City, NJ shows violent crime at 454.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,749.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% 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.
C safety grade
454.2/100K violent
1749.7/100K property
+29% vs U.S.
The verdict
Orange City earns a C safety grade: violent crime runs 29% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
C
PlainCrime safety grade
+29%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
16th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
1,749.7
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Orange City, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Orange City reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 454.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Orange City ranks 16 of 417 — above 401 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +566.5% 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
Orange City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Orange City's 454.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Millville (453.5), Irvington (443.3), Vineland (437.2), Brooklawn (431.3). 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 20.6% of the 757 Part I offenses reported in Orange City for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 13.5 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 66.9% of reported property offenses in Orange City, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (53) and motor vehicle theft (146). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Orange City'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Property offenses lead Orange City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
601
1749.7
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
402
1170.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
146
425
-
Burglary
53
154.3
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
156
454.2
215.7
Aggravated Assault
85
247.5
-
Robbery
49
142.7
-
Rape
20
58.2
-
Murder
2
5.8
-
How Orange City sits among NJ peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Orange City in population. Their populations run from 31,899 to 36,579, against 34,349 here. Or use our
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These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Orange City's 454.2/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Orange City has a violent crime rate of 454.2 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1749.7 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Orange City, NJ safe? ▼
Orange City receives a safety grade of C (Average), with a safety score of 40/100. The violent crime rate is 29% above the national average and 111% above the New Jersey average.
What is the population of Orange City, NJ? ▼
The reporting population for Orange City is 34,349 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Orange City? ▼
In 2024, Orange City reported 156 violent crimes and 601 property crimes, for a total of 757 reported offenses.
How do Orange City's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Orange City recorded about one reported offense per 45 residents and one reported violent offense per 220 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
What is the most common crime in Orange City? ▼
The most common crime type in Orange City is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.1% of all reported crimes (402 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Orange City figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Orange City, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.