Crime in Paterson, New Jersey
Major crime in Paterson is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.4 times for persons crimes and 41% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.8% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Paterson 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 Paterson
The middle half of Paterson residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 92 and 186; the typical (median) resident's is 137.
- 0–500.8%
- 50–10031.9%
- 100–20048.5%
- 200–40012.3%
- 400+6.5%
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 12.8% 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.
Paterson against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
62 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Paterson; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Paterson 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, Prospect Park (1 mi), is 61% below Paterson's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Paterson
What are the most common crimes in Paterson?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 1,077 a year), other larceny (about 983 a year) and aggravated assault (about 965 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery 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. Paterson's figures add up its 111 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Paterson's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 80.6% 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: 163,911. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Paterson, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/paterson
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Prospect Park1 mi63
- Haledon2 mi76
- Elmwood Park2 mi113
- Woodland Park2 mi51
- Fair Lawn3 mi77
- Hawthorne3 mi33
- Totowa3 mi97
- Clifton3 mi100