Crime in Whippany, New Jersey
Major crime in Whippany is 52% below the U.S. rate per resident: 84% lower for persons crimes and 45% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% 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 Whippany is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Whippany 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 Whippany
The middle half of Whippany residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 23 and 44; the typical (median) resident's is 44.
- 0–5076.6%
- 50–10010.9%
- 100–20012.5%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.8% 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.
Whippany against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,425 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Whippany; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Whippany has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cedar Knolls (2 mi), is 2.7 times Whippany's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Whippany
What are the most common crimes in Whippany?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 38 a year), shoplifting (about 20 a year) and burglary (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 17% 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. Whippany's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Whippany 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: 9,128. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Whippany, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/whippany
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Cedar Knolls2 mi131
- Parsippany3 mi66
- Morris Plains3 mi54
- Morristown3 mi48
- Lake Hiawatha5 mi30
- Mountain Lakes5 mi22
- Pine Brook5 mi37
- Chatham6 mi28