Crime in Prospect Park, New Jersey
Major crime in Prospect Park is 38% below the U.S. rate per resident: 67% lower for persons crimes and 31% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.9% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 12% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Prospect Park 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 Prospect Park
The middle half of Prospect Park residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 30 and 83; the typical (median) resident's is 42. The citywide figure (63) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5052.4%
- 50–10033.5%
- 100–20014.1%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.9% 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.
Prospect Park against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,094 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Prospect Park; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Prospect Park has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Haledon (1 mi), is 22% above Prospect Park's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Prospect Park
What are the most common crimes in Prospect Park?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 22 a year), shoplifting (about 17 a year) and burglary (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 12% above 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. Prospect Park's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Prospect Park 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: 6,504. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Prospect Park, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/prospect-park
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100