Crime in Oak Ridge, North Carolina
Major crime in Oak Ridge is 70% below the U.S. rate per resident: 65% lower for persons crimes and 72% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.7% 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 stands out most, at 20% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Oak Ridge 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
Neighborhoods in Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 28; the middle half of residents live where it is between 27 and 30.
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- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.7% in a year; across North Carolina it fell 9.0%
Change in expected crimes, with North Carolina as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Oak Ridge against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,911 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Oak Ridge; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Oak Ridge 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, Stokesdale (4 mi), is 20% above Oak Ridge's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Oak Ridge
What are the most common crimes in Oak Ridge?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 13 a year), theft from vehicle (about 7 a year) and aggravated assault (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 20% 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. Oak Ridge's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Oak Ridge's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% 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: 7,517. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Oak Ridge, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/oak-ridge
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Stokesdale4 mi36
- Summerfield6 mi24
- Kernersville7 mi172
- Greensboro12 mi173
- High Point13 mi129
- Winston-Salem16 mi190
- Mayodan17 mi210
- Midway19 mi44