Ridgewood, Glen Rock Among Top 80 Safest New Jersey Cities

RIDGEWOOD, NJ — Ridgewood was ranked 70th and Glen Rock 76th among the 100 safest cities in New Jersey on the National Council For Home Safety And Security's list of the 2019 Safest Cities in New Jersey on alarms.org.

Ridgewood had six violent crimes and 175 property crimes from 2016 and 2017, giving the town a violent-crime rate of 0.233 and 6.802 property crimes per 1,000 people.

Glen Rock had two violent crimes and 93 property crimes from 2016 and 2017, giving the town a violent-crime rate of 0.166 and 6.802 property crimes per 1,000 people.

Nearby River Vale was the top ranked city on the list. Tenafly was ranked No. 5. Hillsdale was ranked No. 6. New Milford was ranked No. 9 and Westwood was ranked No. 10.

The rankings cite data from the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Report. But they eliminated cities that didn't give the FBI a complete crime report and cities with populations lower than 10,000.

The list accounts for the number of reported violent and property crimes per 1,000 people. Then they compute a variable called Police Adequacy — total crimes divided by the number of police employees. The smaller the Police Adequacy number, the safer the city, according to the methodology.

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