Crime in Orange, California
Major crime in Orange is 38% below the U.S. rate per resident: 30% lower for persons crimes and 40% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.0% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 33% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Orange 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 Orange
The middle half of Orange residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 26 and 70; the typical (median) resident's is 42. The citywide figure (62) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5060.1%
- 50–10029.6%
- 100–2006.9%
- 200–4001.0%
- 400+2.4%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 14.0% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%
Change in expected crimes, with California as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Orange against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
230 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Orange; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Orange has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Villa Park (2 mi), is 41% below Orange's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Orange
What are the most common crimes in Orange?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 302 a year), other larceny (about 286 a year) and burglary (about 272 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 33% above 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. Orange's figures add up its 94 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Orange has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 58.9% 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: 142,425. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Orange, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/orange
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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