Crime in Trenton, New Jersey
Major crime in Trenton is 2.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.9 times for persons crimes and 2.4 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.6% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 5.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Trenton 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 Trenton
The middle half of Trenton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 165 and 288; the typical (median) resident's is 220.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1006.8%
- 100–20034.3%
- 200–40049.7%
- 400+9.3%
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 10.6% 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.
Trenton against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
11 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Trenton; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Trenton 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, Morrisville (2 mi), is 43% below Trenton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Trenton
What are the most common crimes in Trenton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 934 a year), shoplifting (about 733 a year) and aggravated assault (about 547 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 5.8 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. Trenton's figures add up its 73 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Trenton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 83.1% 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: 92,387. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Trenton, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/trenton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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