Crime in Westwood, New Jersey
Major crime in Westwood is 80% below the U.S. rate per resident: 80% lower for persons crimes and 80% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% 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 Westwood is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Westwood 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 Westwood
The middle half of Westwood residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 12 and 26; the typical (median) resident's is 23.
- 0–50100.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.7% 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.
Westwood against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
2,125 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Westwood; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Westwood has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Paramus (3 mi), is 9.6 times Westwood's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Westwood
What are the most common crimes in Westwood?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 15 a year), theft from vehicle (about 8 a year) and aggravated assault (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 74% 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. Westwood's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Westwood 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: 11,457. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Westwood, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/westwood
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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