Crime in Plainfield, New Jersey
Major crime in Plainfield is 19% below the U.S. rate per resident: 26% higher for persons crimes and 29% lower 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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Robbery stands out most, at 2.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Plainfield 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 Plainfield
The middle half of Plainfield residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 49 and 88; the typical (median) resident's is 57. The citywide figure (81) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5032.1%
- 50–10051.2%
- 100–20012.2%
- 200–4004.5%
- 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.
Plainfield against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
318 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Plainfield; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Plainfield has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, North Plainfield (1 mi), is 1.8 times Plainfield's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Plainfield
What are the most common crimes in Plainfield?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 208 a year), shoplifting (about 161 a year) and aggravated assault (about 140 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 2.9 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. Plainfield's figures add up its 37 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Plainfield has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 10.0% 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: 58,108. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Plainfield, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/plainfield
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- North Plainfield1 mi148
- Watchung2 mi378
- South Plainfield2 mi123
- Dunellen3 mi42
- Middlesex5 mi31
- Colonia6 mi45
- Garwood6 mi50
- Metuchen6 mi51