Crime in Long Branch, New Jersey
Major crime in Long Branch is 24% below the U.S. rate per resident: 27% lower for persons crimes and 24% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 31.1% 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.
Check an address in Long Branch
Every crime type in Long Branch is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Long Branch 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 Long Branch
The middle half of Long Branch residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 30 and 96; the typical (median) resident's is 54. The citywide figure (76) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5046.4%
- 50–10030.7%
- 100–20018.1%
- 200–4003.5%
- 400+1.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 31.1% 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.
Long Branch against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
488 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Long Branch; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Long Branch has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, West Long Branch (2 mi), is 19% above Long Branch's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Long Branch
What are the most common crimes in Long Branch?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 137 a year), shoplifting (about 112 a year) and aggravated assault (about 63 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: about 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. Long Branch's figures add up its 27 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Long Branch's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 14.4% 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: 33,683. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Long Branch, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/long-branch
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- West Long Branch2 mi90
- Oceanport2 mi25
- Monmouth Beach3 mi27
- Eatontown3 mi96
- Little Silver4 mi31
- Shrewsbury4 mi87
- Rumson5 mi24
- Fair Haven5 mi16