Crime in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey
Major crime in Point Pleasant Beach is 23% above the U.S. rate per resident: 7% higher for persons crimes and 27% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% 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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Other larceny stands out most, at 2.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Point Pleasant Beach 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 Point Pleasant Beach
The middle half of Point Pleasant Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 60 and 148; the typical (median) resident's is 84. The citywide figure (123) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10053.7%
- 100–20038.7%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+7.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.4% 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.
Point Pleasant Beach against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
392 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Point Pleasant Beach; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Point Pleasant Beach 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, Brielle (1 mi), is 83% below Point Pleasant Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Point Pleasant Beach
What are the most common crimes in Point Pleasant Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 61 a year), aggravated assault (about 15 a year) and shoplifting (about 9 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 2.4 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. Point Pleasant Beach's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Point Pleasant Beach has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 5,026. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/point-pleasant-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Brielle1 mi20
- Point Pleasant2 mi26
- Manasquan2 mi62
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- Spring Lake Heights4 mi17
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