Crime in Jersey City, New Jersey
Major crime in Jersey City is 29% above the U.S. rate per resident: 43% higher for persons crimes and 26% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.9% 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 and weapons violations stand out most, at about 2.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Jersey City 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 Jersey City
The middle half of Jersey City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 66 and 127; the typical (median) resident's is 93. The citywide figure (129) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5012.4%
- 50–10044.1%
- 100–20035.1%
- 200–4005.9%
- 400+2.6%
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 13.9% 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.
Jersey City against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
31 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Jersey City; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Jersey City has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Hoboken (2 mi), is 42% below Jersey City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Jersey City
What are the most common crimes in Jersey City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 2,110 a year), shoplifting (about 1,151 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 1,099 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.7 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. Jersey City's figures add up its 195 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Jersey City's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 75.3% 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: 307,192. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Jersey City, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/jersey-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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