Crime in Preakness, New Jersey
Major crime in Preakness is 68% below the U.S. rate per resident: 78% lower for persons crimes and 66% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 19.4% 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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Every crime type in Preakness is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Preakness 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 Preakness
The middle half of Preakness residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 34; the typical (median) resident's is 24. The citywide figure (32) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5087.6%
- 50–10012.4%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 19.4% 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.
Preakness against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,920 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Preakness; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Preakness has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Haledon (2 mi), is 2.4 times Preakness's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Preakness
What are the most common crimes in Preakness?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 55 a year), aggravated assault (about 11 a year) and burglary (about 11 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 38% below 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. Preakness's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Preakness's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 17,669. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Preakness, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/preakness
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Haledon2 mi76
- Totowa3 mi97
- Prospect Park3 mi63
- Paterson4 mi159
- Woodland Park4 mi51
- Hawthorne4 mi33
- Singac4 mi28
- Pompton Plains5 mi31