CrimeMetric

Crime in Blackwood, New Jersey

Major crime in Blackwood is 29% below the U.S. rate per resident: 55% lower for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.1% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
72
29% below the U.S. rate
8% below the New Jersey rate
down 11.1% in a year
Persons crimes
45
55% below the U.S. rate
24% below the New Jersey rate
up 1.6% in a year
Property crimes
77
23% below the U.S. rate
6% below the New Jersey rate
down 12.5% in a year
Social disorder
70
30% below the U.S. rate
27% above the New Jersey rate
down 1.5% in a year

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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Crime by type

Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 1.5 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Blackwood for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Blackwood

Blackwood is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 62; the middle half of residents live where it is between 62 and 82.

Map of Blackwood, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–100100.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm87
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am56
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm82
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am51
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 11.1% in a year; across New Jersey it fell 10.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-11.1%NJ -10.2%-10.5%NJ -11.5%
Persons crimes+1.6%NJ -7.9%+0.1%NJ -1.4%
Property crimes-12.5%NJ -10.5%-11.9%NJ -13.1%
Social disorder-1.5%NJ -5.4%-6.0%NJ -4.7%

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.

Similar-size places

Blackwood against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

923 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Blackwood; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Blackwood, NJ5,67072

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Blackwood has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Glendora (3 mi), is 27% below Blackwood's rate.

Somerdale4 mi212
Magnolia4 mi175
Lindenwold4 mi122
Clementon4 mi102
Blackwood72
Runnemede4 mi66
Pine Hill4 mi64
Stratford3 mi60
Glendora3 mi52

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Blackwood

What are the most common crimes in Blackwood?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 16 a year), theft from vehicle (about 15 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 14 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 1.5 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. Blackwood's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Blackwood has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 82.9% 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: 5,670. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Blackwood, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/blackwood

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100