Crime in Union City, New Jersey
Major crime in Union City is 22% below the U.S. rate per resident: 13% lower for persons crimes and 24% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 17.6% 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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Other larceny stands out most, at 20% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Union City 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 Union City
The middle half of Union City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 50 and 94; the typical (median) resident's is 63. The citywide figure (78) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5028.0%
- 50–10053.8%
- 100–20015.5%
- 200–4002.7%
- 400+0.0%
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 17.6% 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.
Union City against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
334 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Union City; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Union City 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, Hoboken (2 mi), is about Union City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Union City
What are the most common crimes in Union City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 405 a year), aggravated assault (about 149 a year) and shoplifting (about 117 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 20% above 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. Union City's figures add up its 44 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Union City has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 10.4% 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: 67,850. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Union City, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/union-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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