Crime in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Major crime in Atlantic City is 4.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 5.5 times for persons crimes and 4.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 4.2% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Weapons violations stand out most, at 8.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Atlantic City for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Atlantic City
The middle half of Atlantic City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 176 and 460; the typical (median) resident's is 210. The citywide figure (478) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20034.3%
- 200–40036.9%
- 400+28.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekends
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 4.2% in a year; across New Jersey it fell 10.2%
Change in expected crimes, with New Jersey as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Atlantic City against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
None of the 960 other places of this size has a higher major-crime index than Atlantic City; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Atlantic City has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Ventnor City (3 mi), is 59% below Atlantic City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Atlantic City
What are the most common crimes in Atlantic City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,369 a year), aggravated assault (about 514 a year) and shoplifting (about 455 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 8.5 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Atlantic City's figures add up its 37 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Atlantic City's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 94.4% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 38,955. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Atlantic City, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/atlantic-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Ventnor City3 mi196
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