Bloomfield, NJ has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 123 per 100,000, 65% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Bloomfield, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
At 55,161 residents, Bloomfield is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NJ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Bloomfield, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 65% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bloomfield, NJ shows violent crime at 123.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,461.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 65% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A safety grade
123.3/100K violent
1461.2/100K property
-65% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bloomfield, NJ
Comparable rate records
Bloomfield's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bloomfield's 123.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are East Newark (123.1), Monroe Township, Gloucester County (123.8), Collingswood (123.9), Edgewater Park Township (122.2). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Bloomfield sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 123.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bloomfield ranks 136 of 417 — above 281 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +80.9% against the cohort median of 68.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 99.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 123.3 in 2024 (+23.8%). The highest observed value was 123.3 in 2024 and the lowest 84.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Bloomfield's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Bloomfield's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.3 Census sq mi, Bloomfield logged 151 property and 12.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bloomfield's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 874 offenses; mix index 5,512).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+23.7%
99.7 → 123.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-4.5%
1530.6 → 1461.2/100K
Property offenses lead Bloomfield's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
806
1461.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
633
1147.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
124
224.8
-
Burglary
49
88.8
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
68
123.3
352
Aggravated Assault
46
83.4
-
Robbery
22
39.9
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Bloomfield Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bloomfield property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Bloomfield Police Department
Reporting agency for Bloomfield NIBRS-participating
Bloomfield Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bloomfield's 874 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Bloomfield in population. Their populations run from 51,260 to 57,606, against 55,161 here. Or use our
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Bloomfield at 123.3/100K violent and 1,461.2/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Bloomfield reported 68 violent crimes and 806 property crimes, for a total of 874 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bloomfield?
From 2023 to 2024, Bloomfield's violent crime rate increased by 23.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.5%.
What is the most common crime in Bloomfield?
The most common crime type in Bloomfield is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.4% of all reported crimes (633 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Bloomfield's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bloomfield, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.