Crime in Rockaway, New Jersey
Major crime in Rockaway is 82% below the U.S. rate per resident: 90% lower for persons crimes and 80% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.6% 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 Rockaway is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rockaway for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Rockaway
Rockaway is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 16; the middle half of residents live where it is between 13 and 21.
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- 100–2000.0%
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Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.6% 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.
Rockaway against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
2,138 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rockaway; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rockaway has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Dover (2 mi), is 2.2 times Rockaway's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rockaway
What are the most common crimes in Rockaway?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 7 a year), shoplifting (about 5 a year) and burglary (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 75% 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. Rockaway's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rockaway 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: 6,682. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rockaway, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/rockaway
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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