Crime in Cliffside Park, New Jersey
Major crime in Cliffside Park is 64% below the U.S. rate per resident: 73% lower for persons crimes and 62% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.8% 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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Every crime type in Cliffside Park is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Cliffside Park 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 Cliffside Park
The middle half of Cliffside Park residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 44; the typical (median) resident's is 33.
- 0–5082.5%
- 50–10015.6%
- 100–2001.9%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.8% 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.
Cliffside Park against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
851 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cliffside Park; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Cliffside Park has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Ridgefield (1 mi), is 10% above Cliffside Park's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Cliffside Park
What are the most common crimes in Cliffside Park?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 63 a year), theft from vehicle (about 38 a year) and shoplifting (about 22 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 21% below 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. Cliffside Park's figures add up its 22 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Cliffside Park has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 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: 26,904. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cliffside Park, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/cliffside-park
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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