Orono, ME has a A+ safety grade (94/100) with a violent crime rate of 48 per 100,000, 87% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Orono (12,641 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then ME and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Orono, ME carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 87% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Orono, ME shows violent crime at 47.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 102.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 87% 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.
Small-count caution
Orono reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 12,641. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 31.6% of the 19 Part I offenses reported in Orono for 2024, against a median of 5.6% across comparable Maine cities — a gap of 26.0 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 27.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 47.5 in 2024 (+71.7%). The highest observed value was 47.5 in 2024 and the lowest 17.7 in 2023. 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 Orono's 47.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Boothbay Harbor (47.4), Oakland (46.9), Winthrop (48.2), York (49.1). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 47.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Orono ranks 59 of 101 — above 42 of the 100 other Maine cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -19.4% against the cohort median of 58.9. 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 Orono'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 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 12,641. 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 7.1 Census sq mi, Orono logged 1.8 property and 0.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Orono's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (58% of 19 offenses; mix index 4,017).
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Orono offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.1 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 | 13 | 102.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 11 | 87 |
| Burglary | 2 | 15.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 6 | 47.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 31.6 |
| Rape | 2 | 15.8 |
| 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 | 10,851 | 27.6 | 801.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,666 | 28.1 | 628.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,651 | 42.9 | 369.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,296 | 17.7 | 230.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,641 | 47.5 | 102.8 |
Orono Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Orono's 19 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 Maine cities closest to Orono in population. Their populations run from 9,639 to 14,249, against 12,641 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Orono at 47.5/100K violent and 102.8/100K property - matched below outside Maine (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
47.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
102.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Orono reported 6 violent crimes and 13 property crimes, for a total of 19 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Orono's violent crime rate increased by 168.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 55.3%.
The most common crime type in Orono is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.9% of all reported crimes (11 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Orono 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 Orono's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Orono, ME rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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