Ridgewood Ranked 115th Safest City in NJ, According to Study

A new study by ValuePenguin has named Ridgewood the 115th safest town in New Jersey.

Factoring in population and different types of crimes, “the analysts at ValuePenguin took a comprehensive look at crime statistics at over 474 cities and towns in New Jersey to determine which are the safest and least safe relative to each other.”

Out of 474 cities in the study, Ridgewood came in at number 115 with a crime score of 118, compared to Wildwood, the study’s least safest city in New Jersey, which had a crime score of 2,833.

The top five safest cities in New Jersey are New Hanover, Harrington Park, Haworth, Pennington and Old Tappan in that order. On the contrary, the top five least safest cities in New Jersey are Wildwood, Atlantic City, Asbury Park, Avalon and Sea Isle City.

ValuePenguin used data from 2013 FBI crime statistics to comprise the list:

“We standardized the data to reflect violent and property crimes per 100k, to account for population. We then aggregated a “crime score.” In order to calculate this, we weighted violent crime at 90% and property crime at 10%; though property crime is far more prevalent, we figured that the violent crime data points are more relevant when calculating the relative safety of these cities. We then ranked the cities relative to each other based on their crime scores.”

According to the 2013 crime statistics, last year Ridgewood’s population was 25,315 and the Village had 32 violent crimes per 100,000 and 893 property crimes per 100,000, giving Ridgewood a final score of 118.

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