South Orange Village, NJ has a A safety grade (82/100) with a violent crime rate of 54 per 100,000, 85% below the national average.
South Orange Village (18,532 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
South Orange Village, NJ 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, South Orange Village, NJ shows violent crime at 54 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,473.1 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.
The verdict
South Orange Village earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 85% below the U.S. average, placing it safer than most U.S. cities.
Based on 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 18,532. 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.
Small-count caution
South Orange Village reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 18,532. 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 South Orange Village's 54.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Independence Township (54.2), Sea Girt (54.6), Wharton (53.1), Englewood Cliffs (55.2). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 54.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, South Orange Village ranks 241 of 417 — above 176 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -21.2% against the cohort median of 68.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 3.5% of the 283 Part I offenses reported in South Orange Village for 2024, against a median of 7.2% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 3.7 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 counts dominate South Orange Village'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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 18,532. 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 273 | 1473.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 219 | 1181.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 31 | 167.3 |
| Burglary | 23 | 124.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 54 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 32.4 |
| Rape | 3 | 16.2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 5.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to South Orange Village in population. Their populations run from 17,639 to 19,285, against 18,532 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to South Orange Village's 54/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: South Orange Village 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 South Orange Village's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 South Orange Village, NJ 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. South Orange Village is scored in the mid-size municipal band (18,532 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.