CrimeMetric

Crime in Ramsey, New Jersey

Major crime in Ramsey is 42% below the U.S. rate per resident: 90% lower for persons crimes and 31% 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

Major crime
59
42% below the U.S. rate
25% below the New Jersey rate
down 7.7% in a year
Persons crimes
10
90% below the U.S. rate
84% below the New Jersey rate
down 7.7% in a year
Property crimes
69
31% below the U.S. rate
15% below the New Jersey rate
down 7.7% in a year
Social disorder
36
64% below the U.S. rate
35% below the New Jersey rate
down 5.6% in a year

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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Crime by type

Every crime type in Ramsey is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Ramsey for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Ramsey

The middle half of Ramsey residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 63; the typical (median) resident's is 41. The citywide figure (59) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Ramsey, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5058.1%
  • 50–10019.9%
  • 100–20022.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weekend daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm60
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am59
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm62
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am51
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.7% in a year; across New Jersey it fell 10.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.7%NJ -10.2%-13.9%NJ -11.5%
Persons crimes-7.7%NJ -7.9%-5.5%NJ -1.4%
Property crimes-7.7%NJ -10.5%-14.2%NJ -13.1%
Social disorder-5.6%NJ -5.4%-6.0%NJ -4.7%

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.

Similar-size places

Ramsey against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,312 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ramsey; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Riverhead, NY15,109204
Indianola, IA15,023182
Eden, NC15,037142
Azle, TX15,11184
Alamo, CA15,09864
Ramsey, NJ15,07059
Auburn, CA15,05149

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Ramsey has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Saddle River (3 mi), is 41% below Ramsey's rate.

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Ramsey

What are the most common crimes in Ramsey?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 58 a year), shoplifting (about 46 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 31 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: about 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. Ramsey's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Ramsey 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: 15,070. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ramsey, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/ramsey

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100