Crime in Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Major crime in Perth Amboy is 43% below the U.S. rate per resident: 30% lower for persons crimes and 46% 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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Murder stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Perth Amboy 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 Perth Amboy
The middle half of Perth Amboy residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 38 and 67; the typical (median) resident's is 47. The citywide figure (57) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5058.2%
- 50–10033.4%
- 100–2007.5%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
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.
Perth Amboy against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
439 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Perth Amboy; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Perth Amboy has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Keasbey (2 mi), is 1.5 times Perth Amboy's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Perth Amboy
What are the most common crimes in Perth Amboy?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 211 a year), theft from vehicle (about 114 a year) and aggravated assault (about 96 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 1.6 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. Perth Amboy's figures add up its 35 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Perth Amboy has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 6.2% 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: 57,503. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Perth Amboy, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/perth-amboy
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Keasbey2 mi88
- South Amboy3 mi63
- Fords3 mi108
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- Woodbridge3 mi110
- Menlo Park Terrace4 mi81
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