Crime in Camden, New Jersey
Major crime in Camden is 2.4 times the U.S. rate per resident: 4.1 times for persons crimes and 2.0 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% 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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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 5.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Camden 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 Camden
The middle half of Camden residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 155 and 283; the typical (median) resident's is 205.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1001.4%
- 100–20045.9%
- 200–40045.0%
- 400+7.7%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.5% 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.
Camden against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
17 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Camden; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Camden has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Collingswood (2 mi), is 39% below Camden's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Camden
What are the most common crimes in Camden?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 715 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 577 a year) and other larceny (about 494 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 5.0 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. Camden's figures add up its 60 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Camden has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 88.5% 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: 71,962. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Camden, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/camden
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Collingswood2 mi144
- Merchantville3 mi78
- Westmont3 mi118
- Golden Triangle4 mi426
- Audubon4 mi240
- Mount Ephraim4 mi212
- Haddonfield4 mi88
- Haddon Heights4 mi26