East Newark, NJ has a A safety grade (78/100) with a violent crime rate of 123 per 100,000, 65% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
East Newark's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,437). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NJ and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
East Newark, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 65% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Newark, NJ shows violent crime at 123.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,149 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 38.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 123.1 in 2024 (+221.8%). The highest observed value was 209.8 in 2022 and the lowest 38.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
East Newark reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,437. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 28.6% of reported property offenses in East Newark, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (15) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to East Newark's 123.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bloomfield (123.3), 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
At 123.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Newark ranks 137 of 417 — above 280 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +80.6% 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.
Property counts dominate East Newark'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.
Based on 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,437. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
East Newark leans on burglary at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,319.
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
East Newark offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 28 | 1149 |
| Burglary | 15 | 615.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 8 | 328.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 205.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 123.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2 | 82.1 |
| Robbery | 1 | 41 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,614 | 38.3 | 382.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,704 | 184.9 | 887.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,383 | 209.8 | 545.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,407 | 124.6 | 1287.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,437 | 123.1 | 1149 |
East Newark Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East Newark's 31 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to East Newark in population. Their populations run from 2,307 to 2,564, against 2,437 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
East Newark sits at 123.1/100K violent (grade A); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, East Newark reported 3 violent crimes and 28 property crimes, for a total of 31 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, East Newark's violent crime rate decreased by 1.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.8%.
The most common crime type in East Newark is burglary, accounting for 48.4% of all reported crimes (15 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: East Newark's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how East Newark's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Newark, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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