Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Where Do Sex Offenders Live? Find Them On N.J. Maps

Going trick-or-treating in your town, or in another community? Check these maps before going out in any of New Jersey's Patch towns.

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You may go trick-or-treating for Halloween in your hometown. Or, you may go to a family or friend’s house somewhere else in New Jersey.

It’s a good time to take inventory of who is living in your neighborhood, and across the state, by clicking on the maps below that identifying where hundreds of sex-offenders live in New Jersey.

The list of clickable maps below contain New Jersey State Police data of registered sex offenders living in New Jersey’s Patch towns as of October 2015.

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Note that the New Jersey State Police only list tier 2 and tier 3 sex offenders registered under Megan’s Law guidelines.

The maps represens addresses of offenders convicted of sex crimes. Click on the markers to learn more information about the offender’s name.

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More than half of rape/sexual assault incidents happen within a mile of the victim’s home, according to the United States Department of Justice. About 75 percent of victims know their attacker and 45 percent of victims are under 12-years-old.

The New Jersey State Police maintains the registry and updates information regularly, but information can change quickly. Information is often provided by offenders themselves as required by law.

Here are the maps:

Bergen

Burlington

Cape May

Camden

Essex

Gloucester

Hudson

Mercer

Middlesex

Monmouth

Morris

Ocean

Passaic

Somerset

Sussex

Union

Warren

Picture: Four convicted sex offenders who live in Toms River

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