Oro Valley, AZ has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 51 per 100,000, 85% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Oro Valley (48,680 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then AZ and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Oro Valley, AZ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 85% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oro Valley, AZ shows violent crime at 51.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,148.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 85% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 51.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oro Valley ranks 61 of 64 — above 3 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -80.3% against the cohort median of 261.2. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Small-count caution
Oro Valley reported 25 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 48,680. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oro Valley's 51.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Wellton (37.9), Thatcher (72.1), Douglas (78.1), Chino Valley (78.2). 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 are 4.3% of the 584 Part I offenses reported in Oro Valley for 2024, against a median of 14.8% across comparable Arizona cities — a gap of 10.5 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
Larceny-theft is 91.4% of reported property offenses in Oro Valley, against a cohort median of 77.8%. The remainder is burglary (28) and motor vehicle theft (20). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 57.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 51.4 in 2024 (-11.3%). The highest observed value was 59.2 in 2021 and the lowest 33.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Oro Valley'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.
Based on 25 reported violent incidents in a population of 48,680. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 35.1 Census sq mi, Oro Valley logged 15.9 property and 0.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oro Valley's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (88% of 584 offenses; mix index 7,704).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Oro Valley offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (35.1 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 | 559 | 1148.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 511 | 1049.7 |
| Burglary | 28 | 57.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 20 | 41.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 25 | 51.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 21 | 43.1 |
| Rape | 3 | 6.2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 2.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 46,634 | 57.9 | 1200.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 47,282 | 59.2 | 1315.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 48,441 | 33 | 1191.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 48,738 | 57.5 | 1146.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 48,680 | 51.4 | 1148.3 |
Oro Valley Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oro Valley's 584 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 Arizona cities closest to Oro Valley in population. Their populations run from 37,049 to 59,898, against 48,680 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Oro Valley sits at 51.4/100K violent (grade A); the Arizona cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Oro Valley at 51.4/100K violent and 1,148.3/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
51.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,148.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-10.6% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Oro Valley reported 25 violent crimes and 559 property crimes, for a total of 584 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Oro Valley's violent crime rate decreased by 10.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.1%.
The most common crime type in Oro Valley is larceny-theft, accounting for 87.5% of all reported crimes (511 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Oro Valley 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Oro Valley's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Oro Valley, AZ 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. Oro Valley is scored in the mid-size municipal band (48,680 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.