Crime in Salem, New Jersey
Major crime in Salem is 1.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.4 times for persons crimes and 31% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% 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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Vandalism and aggravated assault stand out most, at about 2.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Salem 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 Salem
Salem is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 157; the middle half of residents live where it is between 117 and 182.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–200100.0%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.0% 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.
Salem against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
259 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Salem; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Salem has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pennsville (6 mi), is 19% below Salem's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Salem
What are the most common crimes in Salem?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 51 a year), aggravated assault (about 32 a year) and burglary (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 2.7 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. Salem's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Salem has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 64.4% 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: 5,406. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Salem, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/salem
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