Photo: The original uploader was Danman083 at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0Violent crime per resident is lower in Oro Valley than in 82% of U.S. towns
The graded rate fell 18% from 2023 to 2025. Oro Valley’s overall Safety Grade is B+ (#10 of 55 graded towns in Arizona): less crime per resident than 65% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. For every 1,000 residents, 0.6 violent crime and 10.7 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of Arizona, the figures are 4.4 and 18.7.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of AZ” is every other Arizona city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Oro Valley
Among Arizona towns, higher
Arizona’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Oro Valley’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 82% of the 55 Arizona towns we grade, against 65% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Oro Valley’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Oro Valley | Rest of Arizona | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.3 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 4.7 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Oro Valley’s police reported 85 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.4 in the rest of Arizona and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Oro Valley property | Rest of Arizona property | Oro Valley violent | Rest of Arizona violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11.9 | 22.4 | 0.3 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 11.4 | 20.4 | 0.6 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 11.5 | 19.5 | 0.5 | 4.7 |
| 2025 | 9.2 | 16.3 | 0.6 | 4.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Arizona.
Crime in Oro Valley per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
484 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
32 violent and 452 property, as reported to the FBI by Oro Valley’s police.
19 people died in crashes on Oro Valley’s roads in 2019–2023
Oro Valley had 15 fatal crashes in five years, in which 19 people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is 7.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for Arizona towns of 25,000–100,000 people (7.5, 24 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Oro Valley and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oro Valley | B+ | 0.6 | 10.7 |
| Casas Adobes | — | — | — |
| Catalina | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Casas Adobes and Catalina are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
Arizona towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oro Valley | B+ | 0.6 | 10.7 |
| Prescott Valley | B− | 2.6 | 7.9 |
| Sierra Vista | C+ | 2.1 | 15.7 |
| Prescott | C | 3.7 | 12.6 |
| Apache Junction | C | 4.1 | 14.1 |
| Bullhead City | C− | 4.0 | 19.6 |
The five graded Arizona towns closest to Oro Valley’s population (48,085), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Oro Valley. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Oro Valley’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (49,271 in 2025); our figure for Oro Valley is 48,085 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Oro Valley
Is Oro Valley, AZ safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Oro Valley reports less crime per resident than 65% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #10 of 55 in Arizona. Its police reported 0.6 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.4 in the rest of Arizona and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Oro Valley?
0.6 violent and 10.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Arizona reports 4.4 and 18.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Oro Valley in 2025?
Oro Valley’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Oro Valley?
Oro Valley’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Oro Valley”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.