The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Weehawken, NJ
Weehawken is a township of 17,500 in Hudson County, next to Midtown Manhattan · Updated November 2026
Is Weehawken, NJ safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Weehawken is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Weehawken sits near the middle: 52% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 48% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A against B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Weehawken run from A to B, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 844 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
52% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Weehawken as a whole, and 48% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Weehawken scores 844.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Weehawken, NJ at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Weehawken, 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 in Weehawken
Burglary is a strength. Weehawken grades B+ for property crime, but burglary grades A+, better than in the neighborhoods where 71% of Americans live.
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Weehawken, 84% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Weehawken
Every part of Weehawken where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Weehawken run from A to B; 31% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Weehawken, the south side has the least crime and the west side the most.
Is crime going up in Weehawken?
Reported property crime in Weehawken has fallen 11% since 2019. Too few violent crimes are reported here each year for a reliable violent crime trend. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 16 to 14 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
WeehawkenUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Weehawken. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Weehawken
Property, US
2016
+21%
+15%
2017
+28%
+12%
2018
-4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
-8%
2021
-22%
-10%
2022
-2%
-6%
2023
-6%
-7%
2024
-11%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Weehawken
CrimeGrade™ estimates Weehawken has about 20 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 46% less than the US as a whole and 27% less than New Jersey.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Weehawken, about 63% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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.
Where and when crime happens in Weehawken
Weehawken has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (86%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (84%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (58%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Weehawken compares with nearby cities
Weehawken has less crime than 8 of its 10 nearest cities; only Edgewater and Secaucus have less.
Two things set Weehawken apart: it has 96 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and 97% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft and robbery, and theft runs high here.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Weehawken: B- (48 of 100).96 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 99% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.97% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 97% of US city residents
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 and assault. 60% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (68 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 95% of US city residents
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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.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.6 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 89% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.6.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 87% of US city residents
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 crime costs Weehawken
Crime costs Weehawken about $414 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 66% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $9.9 million a year, or $567 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$470,000
$27
Rape
$170,000
$10
Robbery
$140,000
$8
Assault
$960,000
$55
Burglary
$130,000
$7
Theft
$1.1 million
$65
Vehicle theft
$250,000
$15
Arson
$7,900
under $1
Vandalism
$160,000
$9
Total
$3.4 million
$196
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Weehawken means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Weehawken is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
Schools in Weehawken, NJ average a SchoolGrade of C: 40% of students test proficient, against 26% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Weehawken on SchoolGrade
