Violent Crime In Bloomfield: See How Town Compares To State, US Levels

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield's violent crime rate is significantly below national and state levels, the latest FBI data shows.

The federal agency recently released 2024 Uniform Crime Reporting data for more than 14 million criminal offenses across the United States, including towns in New Jersey.

According to the FBI, the list of “violent crimes” includes homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

There were 68 violent crimes reported last year in Bloomfield, according to the FBI’s online data explorer. That number is an increase from 2022, when there were 46 violent crimes reported, and 2023, where there were 53. But it’s still below levels seen in the 1980s and 1990s, including 1994, when 208 violent crimes were reported in the township.

With an estimated 52,974 people living in Bloomfield, that would put the town’s violent crime rate at 128.4 per 100,000 residents.

New Jersey saw 20,684 violent crimes with a population of 9,500,851 residents last year – a rate of 217.7 per 100,000 people. The national rate came to 359.1 per 100,000 people. Both were decreases from the previous year. Read More: Crime Dropped In New Jersey Last Year, Latest Federal Data Shows

Here's a list of violent crimes per year in Bloomfield, as seen on the FBI database:

• 1986 - 106
• 1987 - 141
• 1988 - 123
• 1989 - 148
• 1990 - 180
• 1991 - 156
• 1992 - 183
• 1993 - 171
• 1994 - 208
• 1995 - 196
• 1996 - 162
• 1997 - 134
• 1998 - 137
• 1999 - 124
• 2000 - 136
• 2001 - 163
• 2002 - 166
• 2003 - 165
• 2004 - 184
• 2005 - 133
• 2006 - 128
• 2007 - 124
• 2008 - 106
• 2009 - 107
• 2010 - 111
• 2011 - 126
• 2012 - 126
• 2013 - 137
• 2014 - 98
• 2015 - 94
• 2016 - 64
• 2017 - 57
• 2018 - 50
• 2019 - 32
• 2020 - 50
• 2021 - 44
• 2022 - 46
• 2023 - 53
• 2024 - 68

Nationwide, violent crime is down about 4.5 percent from 2023 estimates. That includes drops in murders (14.9%), rapes (5.2%), robberies (8.9%) and aggravated assaults (3%). Meanwhile, property crime dropped 8.1 percent last year in the United States, including burglaries (8.6%), larcenies (5.5%) and vehicle thefts (18.6%).

These numbers are the lowest property crime rates and lowest violent crime rates since at least 1969, according to the Center for American Progress.

The FBI noted that despite the reductions, a violent crime still took place every 26 seconds somewhere in America last year.

The agency cautions that the data isn’t an “exhaustive report” of all crime that takes place in a city or town, and police departments may have “differing levels of participation” over the years. The FBI also says that the data isn’t an effective way of comparing one municipality to another (some factors to consider include population size, economic conditions, employment rates, local judicial and prison policies, and the “effective strength” of the local police force).

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