West New York, NJ has a C safety grade (58/100) with a violent crime rate of 297 per 100,000, 16% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
West New York, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
At 51,260 residents, West New York 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.
West New York, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 16% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West New York, NJ shows violent crime at 296.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,463.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 16% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
296.5/100K violent
1463.1/100K property
-16% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for West New York, NJ
Position in the state cohort
West New York reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 296.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West New York ranks 34 of 417 — above 383 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +335.1% 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.
Comparable rate records
West New York's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West New York's 296.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pemberton Township (295.6), Wildwood Crest (294.9), Ocean Gate (291.8), Neptune Township (289.6). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 200.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 296.5 in 2024 (+48.2%). The highest observed value was 296.5 in 2024 and the lowest 163.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 16.9% of the 902 Part I offenses reported in West New York for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 9.7 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.
Property counts dominate West New York'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.
West New York's 2024 municipal footprint
West New York's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 902 offenses; mix index 5,032).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+24.1%
239 → 296.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
+12.8%
1297.1 → 1463.1/100K
Property offenses lead West New York's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
750
1463.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
625
1219.3
-
Burglary
64
124.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
61
119
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
152
296.5
352
Aggravated Assault
97
189.2
-
Robbery
31
60.5
-
Rape
24
46.8
-
Murder
0
0
-
West New York Crime Trend (2020-2024)
West New York 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
West New York: 297 violent, 1463 property per 100,000 (grade C)
East Brunswick Township: 127 violent, 1171 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Monroe Township, Middlesex County: 12 violent, 262 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Wayne Township: 94 violent, 1861 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Evesham Township: 82 violent, 1351 property per 100,000 (grade A)
West Orange: 140 violent, 1417 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Howell Township: 83 violent, 797 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Egg Harbor Township: 146 violent, 1675 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Manchester Township: 61 violent, 451 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
West New York Police Department
Reporting agency for West New York NIBRS-participating
West New York Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West New York's 902 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 West New York in population. Their populations run from 47,488 to 53,988, against 51,260 here. Or use our
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West New York at 296.5/100K violent and 1,463.1/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, West New York reported 152 violent crimes and 750 property crimes, for a total of 902 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in West New York?
From 2023 to 2024, West New York's violent crime rate increased by 24.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 12.8%.
What is the most common crime in West New York?
The most common crime type in West New York is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.3% of all reported crimes (625 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: West New York'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 West New York, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.