Crime in Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Major crime in Phillipsburg is 26% above the U.S. rate per resident: 17% lower for persons crimes and 36% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% 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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Rape / sexual assault and shoplifting stand out most, at about 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Phillipsburg 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 Phillipsburg
The middle half of Phillipsburg residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 86 and 174; the typical (median) resident's is 93. The citywide figure (126) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10051.4%
- 100–20037.2%
- 200–40011.4%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.7% 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.
Phillipsburg against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
416 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Phillipsburg; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Phillipsburg has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Easton (2 mi), is 46% below Phillipsburg's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Phillipsburg
What are the most common crimes in Phillipsburg?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 116 a year), shoplifting (about 90 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 57 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 1.9 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. Phillipsburg's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Phillipsburg has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 8.0% 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: 15,504. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Phillipsburg, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/phillipsburg
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