Photo: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval · CC BY-SA 4.0Who polices Orchards, and what they report
Orchards has no police department of its own: it’s an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) in Clark County. The Clark County Sheriff’s Office reports to the FBI for the parts of the county without police of their own, so there are no figures for Orchards alone, and no Safety Grade.
What stands out about safety in Orchards
Policed by the county
Orchards is a census-designated place, with no town government. Crimes there are reported to the FBI inside the Clark County Sheriff’s Office’s totals for the county. County police ↓
Counts, not rates
The FBI doesn’t publish how many people the Clark County Sheriff’s Office covers, so its totals can’t be turned into a per-resident rate or a grade for Orchards. County police ↓
The nearest graded towns
The closest Washington towns with their own police figures are Vancouver (D, 5 mi), Battle Ground (B, 6 mi), Camas (B+, 8 mi). Nearby towns can differ a lot from Orchards. Nearest ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What the Clark County Sheriff’s Office reports
Crimes reported to the FBI for the whole area the department covers, by year.
Reports to the FBI for the parts of Clark County without police of their own, which include Orchards.
Property crimes
Violent crimes
2024 offenses reported by the Clark County Sheriff’s Office
Counts, not rates: the FBI doesn’t publish how many people each agency covers. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Tables 10–11.
The nearest Washington towns with a Safety Grade
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | D | 5 mi | 5.9 | 35.8 |
| Battle Ground | B | 6 mi | 1.1 | 10.2 |
| Camas | B+ | 8 mi | 0.4 | 8.5 |
| Ridgefield | B | 11 mi | 0.9 | 10.5 |
| Washougal | B− | 12 mi | 2.2 | 10.5 |
| Woodland | C | 19 mi | 1.3 | 24.9 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Orchards. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Orchards.
Five people died in crashes on Orchards’s roads in 2019–2023
Orchards had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for Washington towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (5.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Orchards’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Orchards’s own rate (3.4) 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.
Orchards and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | D | 5.9 | 35.8 |
| Hockinson | — | — | — |
| Five Corners | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Hockinson and Five Corners are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
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.
- A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
- 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 Orchards
Is Orchards, WA safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Orchards. Orchards has no police department of its own: it’s an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) in Clark County. The Clark County Sheriff’s Office reports to the FBI for the parts of the county without police of their own, so there are no figures for Orchards alone, and no Safety Grade. The nearest Washington towns with a grade are Vancouver (D, 5 mi), Battle Ground (B, 6 mi), Camas (B+, 8 mi).
Who polices Orchards?
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Orchards is an unincorporated community, and the department reports to the FBI for the parts of Clark County without police of their own.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.