Passaic, NJ has a F safety grade (14/100) with a violent crime rate of 719 per 100,000, 104% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 69,938 residents, Passaic 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Passaic, NJ carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 104% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Passaic, NJ shows violent crime at 719.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,837.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 104% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F 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 400.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 719.2 in 2024 (+79.4%). The highest observed value was 719.2 in 2024 and the lowest 20.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 719.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Passaic ranks 6 of 417 — above 411 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +955.4% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 28.1% of the 1,788 Part I offenses reported in Passaic for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 21.0 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Passaic's 719.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Paulsboro (715.5), New Brunswick (698.6), Hi-Nella (632.2), Newark (581.2). 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.
Property counts dominate Passaic'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.
Passaic leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,687.
Violent offenses are 28% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Passaic 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 | 1,285 | 1837.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 988 | 1412.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 183 | 261.7 |
| Burglary | 114 | 163 |
| Arson | 2 | 2.9 |
| Violent Crime | 503 | 719.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 379 | 541.9 |
| Robbery | 111 | 158.7 |
| Rape | 12 | 17.2 |
| Murder | 1 | 1.4 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 69,610 | 400.8 | 1478.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 72,223 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 69,003 | 543.5 | 2013 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 68,784 | 628.1 | 2212.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 69,938 | 719.2 | 1837.3 |
Passaic Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Passaic's 1,788 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Passaic in population. Their populations run from 62,326 to 72,435, against 69,938 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Passaic sits at 719.2/100K violent (grade F); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Passaic at 719.2/100K violent and 1,837.3/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
719.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,837.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+14.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Passaic reported 503 violent crimes and 1,285 property crimes, for a total of 1,788 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Passaic's violent crime rate increased by 14.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17%.
The most common crime type in Passaic is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.3% of all reported crimes (988 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Passaic'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Passaic's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Passaic, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Passaic is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (69,938 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.