Crime in Princeton, New Jersey
Major crime in Princeton is 50% below the U.S. rate per resident: 84% lower for persons crimes and 43% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 17.9% 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 Princeton is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Princeton 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 Princeton
The middle half of Princeton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 21 and 55; the typical (median) resident's is 40. The citywide figure (50) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5074.0%
- 50–10018.5%
- 100–2005.8%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+1.8%
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 17.9% 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.
Princeton against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
720 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Princeton; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Princeton has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Heathcote (5 mi), is 37% below Princeton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Princeton
What are the most common crimes in Princeton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 148 a year), shoplifting (about 53 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 8% 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. Princeton's figures add up its 21 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Princeton's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 5.8% 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: 32,006. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Princeton, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/princeton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Heathcote5 mi32
- Monmouth Junction6 mi48
- Kendall Park7 mi31
- Pennington7 mi42
- Dayton8 mi33
- Blackwells Mills9 mi38
- Hightstown9 mi57
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