The first mention of this place was discovered by historians in 1547 when studying the inventories of the Ovruch castle. Until the 17th century, Narodychi were part of the Kiev Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ovruch Povet. As in many other towns in Ukraine, there is no exact data on the beginning of the settlement of Narodychi by Jews. The existence of a Jewish community in the early 1680s is evidenced by references to Jews in judicial acts preserved in the archives. A more accurate number of Jews in the town and adjacent villages was recorded in 1765 - a total of 241 people. Most of them were traditionally engaged in crafts and petty trade.

Beginning in 1793, after the second division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Narodychi belonged to the Ovruch district of the Volyn province of the Russian Empire. In the next 100 years, the Jewish community of the town increased significantly and in 1897 already numbered 2054 people, which accounted for almost 45% of all residents. Almost the entire trading life of Narodychi was concentrated in its hands. At the beginning of the 20th century, all grocers, butchers and bakeries, bookstores, liquor stores, grocery stores, manufactories and leather goods were owned by Jews. The two mills in the city were rented by Jews. The doctors and pharmacists of the town were Jews, they also kept all 9 hotels.

During the years of the revolution and the civil war, there were several Jewish pogroms in Narodychi, which were carried out by both the "Reds" and "Whites", as well as local gangs. They not only plundered the Jewish community, but also imposed a monetary contribution on it. Fleeing from the pogroms, many Jewish families were forced to emigrate to America.

In the interwar period, in the 1920s, a Jewish school still operated in the town, and in 1925 a Jewish collective farm called the Red Worker was even founded. As of 1926, there were 2,508 Jews in Narodychi, however, already in the 1930s, many began to leave the town, and by 1939 there were only 1,233 of them left.

Parts of the Wehrmacht were occupied by Narodychi at the end of August 1941. Literally a week after the occupation of the city, the Germans declared 208 Jews as partisans and shot them near the road from Narodychi to Katsovshchina (after 1945 - Norintsy). A few days later, another 60 people were shot. And in November, 370 Jews were killed at the local cemetery. In fact, after that they were no longer in the city.

At the end of the Second World War, some Jews nevertheless returned to Narodychi - some from the evacuation, and some from the army. For some time, a minyan was still gathering in private houses. Many Jews emigrated to Israel or other Western countries, especially after the Chernobyl disaster. According to the latest data, Jews do not live in the city today. However, in memory of the once large Jewish community, a large old cemetery has been preserved, where there are still quite a few both old and new (post-war) matzevahs.