Crime in Lakewood, New Jersey
Major crime in Lakewood is 65% below the U.S. rate per resident: 61% lower for persons crimes and 66% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.8% 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 Lakewood is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lakewood 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 Lakewood
The middle half of Lakewood residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 22 and 32; the typical (median) resident's is 27. The citywide figure (35) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5090.5%
- 50–1008.7%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.6%
- 400+0.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 5.8% 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.
Lakewood against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
519 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lakewood; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lakewood 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, Leisure Village (4 mi), is 21% above Lakewood's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lakewood
What are the most common crimes in Lakewood?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 163 a year), theft from vehicle (about 90 a year) and aggravated assault (about 69 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 19% 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. Lakewood's figures add up its 27 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lakewood has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 4.6% 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: 71,618. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lakewood, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/lakewood
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Leisure Village4 mi42
- Leisure Village West7 mi26
- Point Pleasant7 mi26
- Toms River7 mi59
- Brielle8 mi20
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- Point Pleasant Beach9 mi123
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