Crime in Shrewsbury, New Jersey
Major crime in Shrewsbury is 13% below the U.S. rate per resident: 79% lower for persons crimes and about the same 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Shrewsbury 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 Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 119; the middle half of residents live where it is between 61 and 119.
- 0–5022.9%
- 50–10024.4%
- 100–20052.7%
- 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 weekend 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.
Shrewsbury against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
697 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Shrewsbury; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Shrewsbury has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Little Silver (1 mi), is 65% below Shrewsbury's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Shrewsbury
What are the most common crimes in Shrewsbury?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 50 a year), other larceny (about 13 a year) and burglary (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.9 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. Shrewsbury's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Shrewsbury 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: 5,341. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Shrewsbury, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/shrewsbury
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Little Silver1 mi31
- Red Bank1 mi76
- Eatontown2 mi96
- Oceanport2 mi25
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- Fairview3 mi31
- Lincroft3 mi32
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