Crime in Hightstown, New Jersey
Major crime in Hightstown is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 65% lower for persons crimes and 39% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.2% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Hightstown 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 Hightstown
Hightstown is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 49.
- 0–5076.3%
- 50–10023.7%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 9.2% 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.
Hightstown against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,208 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hightstown; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Hightstown has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Twin Rivers (2 mi), is 42% below Hightstown's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Hightstown
What are the most common crimes in Hightstown?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 29 a year), theft from vehicle (about 12 a year) and burglary (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 1.9 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. Hightstown's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Hightstown 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: 6,070. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Hightstown, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/hightstown
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Twin Rivers2 mi33
- Dayton7 mi33
- Monmouth Junction8 mi48
- Heathcote9 mi32
- Princeton9 mi50
- Yorketown10 mi21
- Kendall Park10 mi31
- Spotswood11 mi28