Crime in Summit, New Jersey
Major crime in Summit is 69% below the U.S. rate per resident: 77% lower for persons crimes and 67% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% 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 Summit is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Summit 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
How crime varies across Summit
The middle half of Summit residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 15 and 30; the typical (median) resident's is 21. The citywide figure (31) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5090.5%
- 50–1003.4%
- 100–2004.7%
- 200–4001.4%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.2% 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.
Summit against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,942 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Summit; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Summit has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Chatham (2 mi), is 11% below Summit's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Summit
What are the most common crimes in Summit?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 39 a year), shoplifting (about 29 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 27% 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. Summit's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Summit 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: 23,704. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Summit, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/summit
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Chatham2 mi28
- Kenilworth4 mi36
- Garwood5 mi50
- Roselle Park6 mi35
- Watchung6 mi378
- Roselle7 mi61
- Plainfield7 mi81
- North Plainfield7 mi148