Crime in Wildwood, New Jersey
Major crime in Wildwood is 2.3 times the U.S. rate per resident: 34% higher for persons crimes and 2.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 3.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Wildwood 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 Wildwood
The middle half of Wildwood residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 185 and 330; the typical (median) resident's is 210.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1007.8%
- 100–20032.2%
- 200–40054.7%
- 400+5.4%
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 7.9% 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.
Wildwood against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
75 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wildwood; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Wildwood 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, Wildwood Crest (1 mi), is 65% below Wildwood's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Wildwood
What are the most common crimes in Wildwood?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 86 a year), shoplifting (about 63 a year) and aggravated assault (about 16 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 3.9 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. Wildwood's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Wildwood 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: 5,056. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Wildwood, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/wildwood
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Wildwood Crest1 mi81
- North Wildwood2 mi145
- Cape May6 mi163
- Cape May Court House6 mi107
- Villas7 mi33
- North Cape May7 mi44
- Lewes, DE23 mi50
- Ocean City23 mi100