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Safety in Orangetown · Not graded

Orangetown: recorded crime, not graded

For a graded neighbor, the nearest is Piermont (A+), 2 miles away. Orangetown’s police reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. 14 towns with a Safety Grade lie within 10 miles.

Violent crimes
28
reported to the FBI, 2025
Property crimes
225
reported to the FBI, 2025
Nearest graded town
2 mi
Piermont (A+)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 5 property crimes reported

Property crime (5.3)Violent crime (0.7)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Orangetown0.7
Rest of NY4.9
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Orangetown5.3
Rest of NY19.7
U.S. (FBI)15.5

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.

By year

The years Orangetown’s police reported

Show as a table
YearOrangetownRest of New YorkOrangetownRest of New York
20227.420.00.65.6
2023not reported22.2not reported5.1
20245.621.30.65.0
20255.319.70.74.9

Crimes per 1,000 residents

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of New York. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.

What gets reported

253 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft205
Burglary13
Vehicle theft7
Aggravated assault20
Robbery6
Rape2
Homicide0
Arson0
28
violent crimes
225
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

28 violent and 225 property, as reported to the FBI by Orangetown’s police.

Nearest with figures

The nearest New York towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
PiermontA+2 mi0.21.7
TarrytownA4 mi0.53.8
IrvingtonA−4 mi0.64.9
Dobbs FerryB−5 mi1.712.0
ClarkstownB−6 mi0.916.4
Hastings-on-HudsonA6 mi0.23.7

Straight-line distance from the center of Orangetown. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Orangetown.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

Eight people died in crashes on Orangetown’s roads in 2019–2023

Orangetown had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which eight people died; 2 were pedestrians. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.

That is about what is typical for New York towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (4.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Orangetown’s size would see about 11 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Orangetown’s own rate (3.3) is context, not a ranking.

8
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
2
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
3.3
per 100,000 a year · New York towns of 25,000–100,000: 4.5

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.

Next door

Orangetown and its neighbors

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
ClarkstownB−0.916.4
GreenburghB−0.714.4
TarrytownA0.53.8
RamapoA−0.75.8
Chestnut Ridge———
Nyack———
Upper Nyack———
IrvingtonA−0.64.9

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Chestnut Ridge, Nyack and Upper Nyack have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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 Orangetown. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
  • Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Orangetown’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (42,724 in 2025); our figure for Orangetown is 50,377 (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 Orangetown

Is Orangetown, NY safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Orangetown. The nearest New York towns with a grade are Piermont (A+, 2 mi), Tarrytown (A, 4 mi), Irvington (A−, 4 mi).

Who polices Orangetown?

Orangetown’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Orangetown Town”. 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.