The Gardens, Ocean City, NJ Property Crime Rates and Maps
The Gardens is a neighborhood of 3,550 residents in Ocean City, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in The Gardens?
The Gardens earns an A for property crime, safer than the neighborhoods where 55% of Americans live. Theft makes up 56% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades A+. Ocean City as a whole grades A for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 848 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
55% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than The Gardens as a whole, and 45% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The Gardens scores 848.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in The Gardens, Ocean City, NJ at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in The Gardens in Ocean City, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in The Gardens
Crime per resident runs higher than the grade. The Gardens draws many workers, shoppers and visitors: it has 39.2 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Crimes against them are counted against the few who live here, so crime per resident looks higher than the CrimeGrade™ suggests. The CrimeGrade™ counts everyone who spends time here.
Property crime rates and types in The Gardens
CrimeGrade™ estimates The Gardens has about 27 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 15% more than the US as a whole and 18% less than Ocean City as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in The Gardens, about 56% of the total, followed by vandalism and burglary.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Property crime in The Gardens and nearby neighborhoods
The Gardens has less property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Barnegat Pines and Dover Heights have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from The Gardens. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, The Gardens is safer than 88% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set The Gardens apart: it has 39.2 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 16.8% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft and car theft, and theft runs high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.39.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 97% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.16.8% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft. 78% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (23 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 67% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.98% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs The Gardens
Property crime costs The Gardens about $610,000 a year, or $172 per resident and about $353 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
