CrimeMetric

Crime in Harrison, New Jersey

Major crime in Harrison is 17% below the U.S. rate per resident: 26% lower for persons crimes and 15% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.4% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
83
17% below the U.S. rate
7% above the New Jersey rate
down 8.4% in a year
Persons crimes
74
26% below the U.S. rate
24% above the New Jersey rate
down 5.0% in a year
Property crimes
85
15% below the U.S. rate
about the New Jersey rate
down 9.0% in a year
Social disorder
53
47% below the U.S. rate
about 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

Burglary stands out most, at 23% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Harrison 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 Harrison

The middle half of Harrison residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 69 and 75; the typical (median) resident's is 72.

Map of Harrison, 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.
  • 0–5019.8%
  • 50–10060.7%
  • 100–20019.5%
  • 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 weeknights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm73
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am97
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm81
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am84
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.4% in a year; across New Jersey it fell 10.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.4%NJ -10.2%-2.9%NJ -11.5%
Persons crimes-5.0%NJ -7.9%+8.6%NJ -1.4%
Property crimes-9.0%NJ -10.5%-5.1%NJ -13.1%
Social disorder-5.6%NJ -5.4%+6.8%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

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

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

Pottstown, PA23,392249
Alliance, OH23,404155
Chantilly, VA23,438151
Secaucus, NJ23,448138
Hopewell, VA23,40198
Harrison, NJ23,42783
Millbrae, CA23,43569
Munster, IN23,47652

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

Nearby places

Harrison has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Newark (2 mi), is 27% above Harrison's rate.

Secaucus6 mi138
Newark2 mi106
Harrison83
Bayonne6 mi77

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

Questions about crime in Harrison

What are the most common crimes in Harrison?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 93 a year), shoplifting (about 70 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 49 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 23% 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. Harrison's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Harrison has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 49.3% 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: 23,427. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100