County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Orange County, CA
At 3,186,989 residents, Orange County is a very large county in California. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Orange County, CA reported 13 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Orange County, CA agencies reported 423 violent and 894 property offenses. That equals about 13 violent and 28 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
423 violent offenses
13/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Orange County, CA
Position in the state cohort
Orange County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable California counties
At 13.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Orange County ranks 56 of 56 — above 0 of the 55 other California counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -89.8% against the cohort median of 129.8. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2024 reported record
Larceny-theft is the most reported offence in Orange County
Of the 1,317 Part I offences Orange County reported for 2024, 32.1% were violent. Aggravated assault leads the violent categories at 385, and larceny-theft leads the property categories at 574, against a population of 3,186,989. California has too few counties with a comparable 2024 submission to place this record against an in-state cohort, so it is reported on its own terms.
On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
894
Burglary
126
Larceny-Theft
574
Motor Vehicle Theft
194
Arson
13
Violent Crime
423
Murder
1
Rape
4
Robbery
33
Aggravated Assault
385
Reporting Agency
Orange County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Orange County's crime figures on this page originate from Orange County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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.
Similar-Size Counties in California
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the California counties closest to Orange County in population. Their populations run from 1,682,353 to 3,298,634, against 3,186,989 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.