Crime in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey
Major crime in Wildwood Crest is 19% below the U.S. rate per resident: 12% lower for persons crimes and 21% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% 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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Murder stands out most, at 2.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Wildwood Crest 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 Crest
The middle half of Wildwood Crest residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 71; the typical (median) resident's is 67. The citywide figure (81) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5025.9%
- 50–10059.9%
- 100–2007.2%
- 200–4007.0%
- 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 8.0% 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 Crest against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
566 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wildwood Crest; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Wildwood Crest has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Wildwood (1 mi), is 2.9 times Wildwood Crest's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Wildwood Crest
What are the most common crimes in Wildwood Crest?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 21 a year), aggravated assault (about 7 a year) and burglary (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 2.7 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 Crest's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Wildwood Crest 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: 2,968. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nj/wildwood-crest
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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