Fair Lawn Burglaries Concentrated West of Route 208 [Interactive Map]

Burglaries in Fair Lawn, which have reached decade highs the past two years, continue to occur most often in the area west and south of the Route 208 highway that splits the borough, according to police department data.

There have been 84 burglaries in Fair Lawn over the past 16 months, spread evenly between residential and non-residential break-ins. Burglars — or in some cases, a single burglar — hit the borough's merchants hard last spring, but in recent months the vast majority of burglary reports have been at homes.

More than twice the residential burglaries and nearly all of the commercial burglaries in the past 16 months have occurred west of Route 208.

Businesses on River Road, in particular, have dealt with a significant uptick in burglaries since the beginning of 2012. Residential burglaries are distributed more widely across the borough, but often appear bunched in groups of three of four within a few blocks of one another.

As one might expect, most commercial burglaries occured along main business drags like Fair Lawn Avenue, Broadway, River Road and Saddle River Road.

The municipality of residence for accused borough burglars varies widely. Five of the 18 individuals arrested on burglary charges in the past 16 months have been Fair Lawn residents. Another seven were from either Paterson (3), Newark (2) or Elmwood Park (2). The remaining six individuals brought up on burglary charges in Fair Lawn were from different towns in Bergen, Passaic, Essex and Hudson counties.

For a better view of burglaries in town, see the embedded interactive map. Use the (+) and (-) buttons to zoom in and out. Each burglary is marked by a circular data point. Locations that experienced more than one burglary in the past 16 months appear in yellow (two burglaries) or red (three burglaries). Clicking on each data point reveals the address of the burglary, the date it was committed and a link to the Patch story about the burglary (if one was written). The map also includes data points for the 10 robberies committed in Fair Lawn since the beginning of 2012.

Select the following links to view different breakdowns of the data:

• All residential burglaries and robberies in Fair Lawn since January 2012.
• All non-residential burglaries and robberies in Fair Lawn since January 2012.
• All robberies in Fair Lawn since January 2012
• All burglaries in Fair Lawn since January 2012

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