Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Reported crime per resident in Orange Park fell 29% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Orange Park grades B− for safety (#47 of 128 graded towns in Florida): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of FL” is every other Florida 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 Orange Park
Among Florida towns, higher
Florida’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Orange Park’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 63% of the 128 Florida towns we grade, against 50% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Orange Park has 6,299 jobs based in town for 8,953 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Orange Park’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Orange Park’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (2.7) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime is falling
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Florida.
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| Year | Orange Park property | Rest of Florida property | Orange Park violent | Rest of Florida violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7.7 | 19.3 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 8.6 | 18.4 | 2.5 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 5.9 | 14.3 | 2.1 | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Violent crime, by year and by type
Orange Park’s police reported 74 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Orange Park | Rest of Florida | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 6 property crimes reported
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
72 crimes reported in 2025
19 violent and 53 property, as reported to the FBI by Orange Park’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Four people died in crashes on Orange Park’s roads in 2019–2023
Orange Park had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died; 1 was a pedestrian and 1 was a cyclist.
That is about what is typical for Florida towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (11.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Orange Park’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Orange Park’s own rate (8.8) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Orange Park and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Park | B− | 2.7 | 7.4 |
| Lakeside | — | — | — |
| Fleming Island | — | — | — |
| Jacksonville | — | — | — |
| Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Lakeside, Fleming Island and Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own. Jacksonville has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Florida towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Park | B− | 2.7 | 7.4 |
| Indian Harbour Beach | B+ | 1.5 | 5.1 |
| Westlake | B | 0.8 | 10.5 |
| St. Pete Beach | C | 2.4 | 20.1 |
| Springfield | D | 6.4 | 19.6 |
| Lake Park | D− | 5.6 | 60.1 |
The five graded Florida towns closest to Orange Park’s population (8,953), by grade.
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 Orange Park. 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 Orange Park’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,969 in 2025); our figure for Orange Park is 8,953 (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 Orange Park
Is Orange Park, FL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Orange Park reports less crime per resident than 50% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #47 of 128 in Florida. Its police reported 2.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.4 in the rest of Florida and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Orange Park?
2.7 violent and 7.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Florida reports 3.4 and 17.2; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Orange Park?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Orange Park?
Orange Park’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Orange Park”. 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.