CrimeMetric

Crime in East Rutherford, New Jersey

Major crime in East Rutherford is 68% below the U.S. rate per resident: 85% lower for persons crimes and 65% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
32
68% below the U.S. rate
59% below the New Jersey rate
down 8.2% in a year
Persons crimes
15
85% below the U.S. rate
75% below the New Jersey rate
down 8.0% in a year
Property crimes
35
65% below the U.S. rate
57% below the New Jersey rate
down 8.2% in a year
Social disorder
13
87% below the U.S. rate
76% below the New Jersey rate
down 5.6% 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

Every crime type in East Rutherford is near or below the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across East Rutherford

The middle half of East Rutherford residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 10 and 18; the typical (median) resident's is 15. The citywide figure (32) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of East Rutherford, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5079.3%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20020.7%
  • 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 weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm37
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am24
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm42
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am23
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.2% in a year; across New Jersey it fell 10.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.2%NJ -10.2%-10.1%NJ -11.5%
Persons crimes-8.0%NJ -7.9%-5.5%NJ -1.4%
Property crimes-8.2%NJ -10.5%-10.5%NJ -13.1%
Social disorder-5.6%NJ -5.4%-1.3%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

East Rutherford against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,927 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than East Rutherford; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Oakville, CT10,56178
Martin, TN10,57672
Coweta, OK10,59546
Clayton, CA10,61040
East Rutherford, NJ10,58432

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

Nearby places

East Rutherford 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, Carlstadt (1 mi), is 1.5 times East Rutherford's rate.

Passaic2 mi124
Garfield3 mi99
Lodi3 mi68
Carlstadt1 mi49
East Rutherford32

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

Questions about crime in East Rutherford

What are the most common crimes in East Rutherford?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 19 a year), shoplifting (about 15 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 11 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 54% 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. East Rutherford's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • East Rutherford 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: 10,584. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in East Rutherford, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/east-rutherford

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