Crime in Clayton, New Jersey
Major crime in Clayton is 35% below the U.S. rate per resident: 51% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% 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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No crime type in Clayton is more than 10% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Clayton 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
Neighborhoods in Clayton
Clayton is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 67; the middle half of residents live where it is between 55 and 67.
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Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.6% 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.
Clayton against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,047 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Clayton; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Clayton has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Glassboro (4 mi), is 2.2 times Clayton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Clayton
What are the most common crimes in Clayton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 45 a year), burglary (about 12 a year) and shoplifting (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 9% above 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. Clayton's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Clayton's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% 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: 9,092. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Clayton, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/clayton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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