Crime in Linden, New Jersey
Major crime in Linden is 35% above the U.S. rate per resident: 51% lower for persons crimes and 1.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Linden 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 Linden
The middle half of Linden residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 50 and 144; the typical (median) resident's is 83. The citywide figure (135) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5022.3%
- 50–10034.2%
- 100–20034.6%
- 200–4005.8%
- 400+3.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 0.7% 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.
Linden against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
170 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Linden; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Linden 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, Roselle (1 mi), is 55% below Linden's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Linden
What are the most common crimes in Linden?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 452 a year), other larceny (about 290 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 150 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 3.0 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. Linden's figures add up its 37 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Linden has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 27.1% 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: 46,867. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Linden, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/linden
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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