New Jersey · 863,002 residents
Browse neighborhood-by-neighborhood crime scores for every Census block group in Essex County. Severity-weighted and rate-normalized, built for real estate, PropTech, and location intelligence workflows.
Essex County, New Jersey is a larger regional county market, with an estimated 863,002 residents across 319,788 households based on 2024 ACS 5-year profile data.
The housing profile is more mixed than many county pages, with renter-occupied homes at 55.1% and owner-occupied homes at 44.9%.
The county profile also includes broad socioeconomic context, including a 12.5% poverty rate, a 8.7% unemployment rate, 39.1% bachelor's degree or higher attainment.
Long commutes are a notable local context signal here, with 17.6% of workers reporting commutes of 60 minutes or more.
CrimeScore pairs this county profile with neighborhood-level safety scores and block group map layers so teams can compare local areas inside Essex County without relying on one broad county-level view.
County profile data uses 2024 ACS 5-year estimates.
Each colored polygon is a Census block group, typically 600 to 3,000 residents. Greener regions score safer; orange and red indicate higher modeled risk. Click any block group to see its score and grade. A free account unlocks component breakdowns and API access for production use.
Scores in Essex County come from the same gradient-boosted ensemble we ship through the CrimeScore crime data API, crime score API, and embeddable crime map. Built from normalized national location signals and validated across geography. Protected attributes are excluded from scoring, and prohibited/high-impact uses are explicitly out of scope.