Crime in Oro Valley, Arizona
Major crime in Oro Valley is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 79% lower for persons crimes and 36% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 4.1% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Drugs and alcohol and shoplifting stand out most, at about 1.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Oro Valley for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Oro Valley
The middle half of Oro Valley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 17 and 59; the typical (median) resident's is 26. The citywide figure (56) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5064.5%
- 50–10025.0%
- 100–2004.6%
- 200–4005.9%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 4.1% in a year; across Arizona it fell 3.2%
Change in expected crimes, with Arizona as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Oro Valley against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
657 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Oro Valley; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Oro Valley has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Casas Adobes (6 mi), is 2.8 times Oro Valley's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Oro Valley
What are the most common crimes in Oro Valley?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 228 a year), other larceny (about 113 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 51 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.5 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Oro Valley's figures add up its 33 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Oro Valley has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 8.1% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 48,284. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Oro Valley, Arizona." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/az/oro-valley
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Casas Adobes6 mi155
- Catalina6 mi145
- Flowing Wells9 mi161
- Catalina Foothills10 mi112
- Marana10 mi56
- Tucson Mountains11 mi54
- South Tucson15 mi646
- Tucson15 mi172