Crime in Raritan, New Jersey
Major crime in Raritan is 14% below the U.S. rate per resident: 36% lower for persons crimes and 9% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 6.5% 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 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Raritan 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
Neighborhoods in Raritan
Raritan is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 82; the middle half of residents live where it is between 50 and 111.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10055.6%
- 100–20044.4%
- 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.
About the same at every time of week
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 6.5% 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.
Raritan against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
716 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Raritan; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Raritan has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Bradley Gardens (1 mi), is 53% below Raritan's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Raritan
What are the most common crimes in Raritan?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 67 a year), shoplifting (about 15 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 1.6 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. Raritan's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Raritan 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: 8,518. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Raritan, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/raritan
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Bradley Gardens1 mi40
- Somerville2 mi99
- Green Knoll2 mi197
- Bridgewater Center3 mi25
- Finderne3 mi159
- Manville3 mi79
- Martinsville4 mi35
- Hillsborough4 mi47