Palisades Park has an overall crime rate of 8 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Palisades Park is 1 in 125. How does Palisades Park fare compared to other communities in New Jersey of all population sizes? Palisades Park's crime rate is lower than approximately 60% of New Jersey communities.

However, compared to other communities of similar population size, Palisades Park has a crime rate that is noticeably lower than the average. This means that for comparably sized cities all across America, Palisades Park is actually safer than most according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis of FBI crime data.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Palisades Park does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Palisades Park.

For Palisades Park, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Palisades Park than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 1436, which is a violent crime rate of 1 per one thousand inhabitants.

Moreover, the rate of property crime in Palisades Park; burglary, larceny ($50 or more), grand theft auto, and arson; is 7 per 1,000 residents. This is about average for all cities and towns in America of all population sizes.