Orange City, NJ is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
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.
Orange City's 2024 municipal footprint
Orange City leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,416.
Violent offenses are 21% 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Orange City: 454 violent, 1750 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Ewing Township: 251 violent, 2373 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Garfield: 199 violent, 1751 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Freehold Township: 157 violent, 1509 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Long Branch: 242 violent, 1628 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Willingboro Township: 348 violent, 1298 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Fair Lawn: 44 violent, 938 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Lawrence Township, Mercer County: 28 violent, 1829 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Voorhees Township: 78 violent, 1586 property per 100,000 (grade A)
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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Orange City at 454.2/100K violent and 1,749.7/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Orange City reported 156 violent crimes and 601 property crimes, for a total of 757 reported offenses.
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.