Crime in Passaic, New Jersey
Major crime in Passaic is 24% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 16% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.8% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Passaic 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 Passaic
The middle half of Passaic residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 85 and 134; the typical (median) resident's is 100. The citywide figure (124) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–502.6%
- 50–10045.2%
- 100–20040.5%
- 200–40010.8%
- 400+0.9%
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 11.8% 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.
Passaic against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
152 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Passaic; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Passaic 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, Wallington (1 mi), is 43% below Passaic's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Passaic
What are the most common crimes in Passaic?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 498 a year), other larceny (about 315 a year) and aggravated assault (about 291 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 2.6 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. Passaic's figures add up its 50 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Passaic has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 61.9% 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: 72,099. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Passaic, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/passaic
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Wallington1 mi70
- Clifton1 mi100
- Garfield2 mi99
- Wood-Ridge2 mi30
- East Rutherford2 mi32
- Rutherford2 mi39
- Carlstadt2 mi49
- Lodi3 mi68