Crime in Morris Plains, New Jersey
Major crime in Morris Plains is 46% below the U.S. rate per resident: 91% lower for persons crimes and 36% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% 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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Other larceny stands out most, at 18% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Morris Plains 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 Morris Plains
Morris Plains is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 71; the middle half of residents live where it is between 35 and 71.
- 0–5040.1%
- 50–10059.9%
- 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 7.5% 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.
Morris Plains against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,268 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Morris Plains; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Morris Plains has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cedar Knolls (2 mi), is 2.4 times Morris Plains's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Morris Plains
What are the most common crimes in Morris Plains?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 41 a year), shoplifting (about 11 a year) and burglary (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 18% above 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. Morris Plains's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Morris Plains 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: 6,882. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Morris Plains, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/morris-plains
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Cedar Knolls2 mi131
- Morristown3 mi48
- Whippany3 mi48
- Parsippany4 mi66
- Mountain Lakes4 mi22
- Rockaway5 mi18
- Dover5 mi39
- Lake Hiawatha6 mi30