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Crash rates in walkable New Jersey towns

We compared crashes that hurt someone per resident in 23 walkable New Jersey towns and Montclair, 2019 and 2021 to 2025, setting aside years with incomplete records. The four densest, Guttenberg, West New York, Union City and Hoboken, all rank among the five lowest. Rates ran from 1.9 to 12.0 per 1,000 residents a year. Updated October 28, 2026.

Updated · 24 towns · 2019 and 2021 to 2025By the Counselworthy team · Sources · Download the table
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  1. Stop 1 of 9 · The crashes

    28,900 crashes hurt someone in these 24 towns

    That's every one in NJDOT's records for 2019 and 2021 to 2025. We left out years when a town's records look incomplete.

    Each dot is one crash, dropped at random inside its town: the records give the town, not the spot.

    On average, that's about 14 a day. Once they've landed, rings keep coming from each town at its own pace, one second for each day.

    In the picture: New Jersey's towns, each named, with 28,900 red dots landing in the 24 towns year by year, one for each crash that hurt someone, a ring spreading from each. Then rings keep spreading from each town at its own pace, one second for each day.

    NJDOT Crash Data Portal, read October 28, 2026. Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025.

  2. Stop 2 of 9 · The biggest

    1,254 crashes a year hurt someone in Jersey City, the most of the 24

    Jersey City is also the biggest town by far: 302,013 people live there.

    To compare towns of different sizes fairly, count crashes per person.

    In the picture: The towns lie flat on the map, Jersey City raised a little with a light tracing its border. Under the map, a bar for each town, its crashes that hurt someone a year, longest first: Jersey City's is longest by far.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025.

  3. Stop 3 of 9 · Per person

    16 of the other 23 towns have more crashes per person than Jersey City

    The dashed line in the bars is Jersey City's rate. The 16 bars above it are the towns with more crashes per person, and they glow on the map. Keep scrolling to fly over them.

    Per person, Jersey City has 4.3 crashes that hurt someone a year for every 1,000 people who live there. East Rutherford (12.0) and Atlantic City (11.4) have the two highest rates.

    Every crash on a town's roads counts, even by people driving through, so towns many people drive into run higher. It isn't a risk score.

    In the picture: The bars under the map change to crashes that hurt someone per 1,000 people a year, longest first, with a dashed line at Jersey City's rate: the 16 bars above it are the towns with more, and those towns glow on the map. Then the view flies low over the map, south to north, over the 16 towns, each naming itself with its rate, and turns to Jersey City.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025, some years set aside.

  4. Stop 4 of 9 · The most crowded

    61,710 people per square mile in Guttenberg, the most crowded of the 24

    That's 3 times as crowded as Jersey City.

    Guttenberg, West New York, Union City and Hoboken, side by side in Hudson County, are the four most crowded towns on the list, each with more than 40,000 people per square mile. No other town tops 23,000.

    In the picture: The camera dives into Hudson County, its streets drawn, and lights trace Guttenberg, West New York, Union City and Hoboken. The bars change to people per square mile, longest first: those four come first.

    Counselworthy analysis of the Census Bureau's 2025 population estimates and its 2026 Gazetteer.

  5. Stop 5 of 9 · Crowded, and calm

    4 of the 5 lowest crash rates are in the four most crowded towns

    Guttenberg, West New York, Union City and Hoboken: 1.9 to 2.6 crashes that hurt someone a year for every 1,000 people. Jersey City has 4.3, and East Rutherford 12.0.

    The other is Madison, at 1.9 (its rate counts 2019, 2024 and 2025).

    In the picture: Hudson County up close, the four most crowded towns still traced. The bars change to crashes that hurt someone per 1,000 people, lowest first: those four are among the first five.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025, some years set aside.

  6. Stop 6 of 9 · People per crash

    519 people in West New York for every crash a year that hurts someone

    In East Rutherford, it's 1 crash for every 83 people. West New York is tied for the lowest rate on the list.

    Each dot is a person who lives there. The red dot is one crash.

    In the picture: Two grids of dots side by side, filling in as they count: 519 people in West New York with one red dot among them, and 83 in East Rutherford.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025, some years set aside.

  7. Stop 7 of 9 · On foot

    16.9 pedestrian crashes a year for every 10,000 people in Atlantic City, the highest rate

    That counts crashes with someone on foot that hurt someone. Morristown is next, at 11.5.

    Now the bars are that rate.

    In the picture: The bars change to pedestrian crashes that hurt someone, per 10,000 people a year, longest first, and a light traces Atlantic City, raised a little: its bar is first.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025, some years set aside.

  8. Stop 8 of 9 · Hoboken

    2.5 crashes a year hurt someone, for every 1,000 people in Hoboken

    That counts 2019, 2021 and 2022: NJDOT's records for Hoboken thin out after that.

    Hoboken police records fill the gap: 144 crash injuries in 2023 and 219 in 2024 (Bike Hoboken's count), or 2.5 and 3.7 for every 1,000 people. Those count injuries, not crashes.

    In the picture: Hoboken up close, its own streets lit inside a light tracing its border. Beside it, every crash NJDOT lists in Hoboken each year: 867 in 2019, 762 in 2021 and 836 in 2022, the years counted, then 334 in 2023, 334 in 2024 and 346 in 2025, set aside.

    Counselworthy analysis of Bike Hoboken, 2024 Bike Hoboken Traffic Injury Report and Census Bureau data.

  9. Stop 9 of 9 · Your town

    Find a town

    Pick any of the towns, or tap it on the map or its bar, to see its rates and the years counted.

    In the picture: The town you pick, traced, among its neighbors, and its bar among the rest.

    Hoboken Hudson County

    • 2.5 crashes that hurt someone per 1,000 residents a year
    • 6.7 with someone on foot per 10,000
    • 4.3 with someone on a bike per 10,000

    Number 4 of 24, lowest rate first. 47,222 residents per square mile, 12% of commuters walk. Years counted: 2019, 2021 and 2022.

    See it in the table

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025

Every town, side by side

Crashes that hurt someone in walkable New Jersey towns, per resident, 2019 and 2021 to 2025
TownCrashes that hurt someone, per 1,000 residents a yearWith someone on foot, per 10,000With someone on a bike, per 10,000Residents, 2025Residents per square mileWalk to workYears counted
MadisonMorris County1.91.61.416,6073,85110%2019, 2024 and 2025
West New YorkHudson County1.96.02.553,19253,56712%2019 and 2021 to 2024
GuttenbergHudson County2.16.52.711,91061,71012%2019 and 2021 to 2025
HobokenHudson County2.56.74.359,02747,22212%2019, 2021 and 2022
Union CityHudson County2.66.54.366,65651,79211%2019, 2021 and 2023 to 2025
PrincetonMercer County3.03.62.631,4691,75430%2019 and 2021 to 2025
BayonneHudson County3.87.63.574,74412,8407%2019 and 2021 to 2025
Jersey CityHudson County4.37.14.8302,01320,4787%2019 and 2021 to 2025
HarrisonHudson County4.48.34.522,10518,2548%2019 and 2021 to 2025
SummitUnion County4.44.91.623,3143,8908%2019 and 2021 to 2025
WestwoodBergen County4.53.12.811,3655,0318%2019 and 2021 to 2025
MontclairEssex County4.66.93.244,6337,1555%2019 and 2021 to 2025
Ocean CityCape May County4.85.811.611,1011,6438%2022 to 2025
PassaicPassaic County4.98.53.671,33722,77012%2019 and 2021 to 2025
GlassboroGloucester County5.33.62.024,4832,6278%2019 and 2021 to 2025
Red BankMonmouth County6.06.04.712,8967,3867%2019 and 2021 to 2025
Asbury ParkMonmouth County6.15.78.015,63210,9319%2019 and 2021 to 2024
PiscatawayMiddlesex County6.51.91.262,2533,3129%2019 and 2021 to 2025
MorristownMorris County6.611.54.220,7507,1337%2019, 2021, 2024 and 2025
EnglewoodBergen County7.06.63.130,0356,0988%2019 and 2021 to 2025
Little FallsPassaic County7.83.11.215,3405,4888%2019 and 2021 to 2025
New BrunswickMiddlesex County8.29.83.857,13310,91817%2019 and 2022 to 2025
Atlantic CityAtlantic County11.416.99.638,7873,60512%2019 and 2021 to 2025
East RutherfordBergen County12.09.51.510,5662,8469%2019 and 2021 to 2025

Lowest rate first. Shaded: the 4 densest towns. 28,900 crashes that hurt someone in all, over the years counted. Source: Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data.

Every finding, with its source

One sentence each, with its source beside it. These are our own counts from public records: please credit Counselworthy and link to this page, or to the finding, when you use them.

  1. The four densest towns, Guttenberg, West New York, Union City and Hoboken, all rank among the five lowest of the 24 for crashes that hurt someone per resident: West New York 1.9, Guttenberg 2.1, Hoboken 2.5 and Union City 2.6 per 1,000 residents a year. (Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025, some years set aside)

  2. The other town among the five lowest: Madison, at 1.9, counting 2019, 2024 and 2025. (Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025, some years set aside)

  3. Rates ran from 1.9 crashes that hurt someone per 1,000 residents a year in Madison and West New York to 12.0 in East Rutherford. Every crash on a town's roads counts against its residents, so a town many people drive into or through runs higher. (Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025, some years set aside)

  4. Atlantic City had the highest rate of crashes that hurt someone with a person on foot: 16.9 per 10,000 residents a year, against 11.5 in Morristown, next. (Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data, 2019 and 2021 to 2025, some years set aside)

  5. Crash injuries in Hoboken Police Department records: 144 in 2023 and 219 in 2024, or 2.5 and 3.7 per 1,000 residents. These count injuries, not crashes, and one crash can injure more than one person. NJDOT's records for Hoboken look incomplete in those years, so its rate above counts 2019, 2021 and 2022. (Counselworthy analysis of the 2024 Bike Hoboken Traffic Injury Report and Census Bureau data)

Every town, ranked

Crashes that hurt someone, per 1,000 residents a year.

The 4 densest towns, over 40,000 residents per square mileThe other 20

  1. Madison1.9
  2. West New York (one of the densest)1.9
  3. Guttenberg (one of the densest)2.1
  4. Hoboken (one of the densest)2.5
  5. Union City (one of the densest)2.6
  6. Princeton3.0
  7. Bayonne3.8
  8. Jersey City4.3
  9. Harrison4.4
  10. Summit4.4
  11. Westwood4.5
  12. Montclair4.6
  13. Ocean City4.8
  14. Passaic4.9
  15. Glassboro5.3
  16. Red Bank6.0
  17. Asbury Park6.1
  18. Piscataway6.5
  19. Morristown6.6
  20. Englewood7.0
  21. Little Falls7.8
  22. New Brunswick8.2
  23. Atlantic City11.4
  24. East Rutherford12.0

Lowest first. Each town's years are in the table below.

Crowded towns, and their rates

Each dot is a town: how many people live in a square mile across, crashes that hurt someone per 1,000 residents a year up.

The shaded band: the 4 densest towns, over 40,000 residents per square mile. A town's rate counts every crash on its roads against its residents, so it isn't a risk score. Source: Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and Census Bureau data.

Each town's records, year by year

Every crash the portal lists for each town, 2019 to 2025, on its own scale. A year that thins out next to the town's others, or is still filling in, is set aside.

CountedSet aside: records look incomplete2020: left out for every town

  1. Madison 1.9

    Madison, crashes listed by year: 2019, 152; 2020, 36 (left out); 2021, 6 (set aside); 2022, 26 (set aside); 2023, 68 (set aside); 2024, 168; 2025, 216.

  2. West New York 1.9

    West New York, crashes listed by year: 2019, 814; 2020, 477 (left out); 2021, 605; 2022, 692; 2023, 532; 2024, 755; 2025, 428 (set aside).

  3. Guttenberg 2.1

    Guttenberg, crashes listed by year: 2019, 162; 2020, 138 (left out); 2021, 173; 2022, 187; 2023, 190; 2024, 133; 2025, 117.

  4. Hoboken 2.5

    Hoboken, crashes listed by year: 2019, 867; 2020, 559 (left out); 2021, 762; 2022, 836; 2023, 334 (set aside); 2024, 334 (set aside); 2025, 346 (set aside).

  5. Union City 2.6

    Union City, crashes listed by year: 2019, 1,388; 2020, 917 (left out); 2021, 1,085; 2022, 215 (set aside); 2023, 1,277; 2024, 1,319; 2025, 1,251.

  6. Princeton 3.0

    Princeton, crashes listed by year: 2019, 686; 2020, 375 (left out); 2021, 473; 2022, 389; 2023, 551; 2024, 426; 2025, 530.

  7. Bayonne 3.8

    Bayonne, crashes listed by year: 2019, 1,454; 2020, 782 (left out); 2021, 941; 2022, 1,043; 2023, 1,382; 2024, 1,500; 2025, 1,514.

  8. Jersey City 4.3

    Jersey City, crashes listed by year: 2019, 8,546; 2020, 5,181 (left out); 2021, 6,218; 2022, 6,483; 2023, 5,572; 2024, 6,851; 2025, 6,059.

  9. Harrison 4.4

    Harrison, crashes listed by year: 2019, 732; 2020, 504 (left out); 2021, 536; 2022, 573; 2023, 598; 2024, 660; 2025, 544.

  10. Summit 4.4

    Summit, crashes listed by year: 2019, 553; 2020, 348 (left out); 2021, 397; 2022, 452; 2023, 520; 2024, 659; 2025, 622.

  11. Westwood 4.5

    Westwood, crashes listed by year: 2019, 335; 2020, 216 (left out); 2021, 269; 2022, 259; 2023, 301; 2024, 343; 2025, 328.

  12. Montclair 4.6

    Montclair, crashes listed by year: 2019, 1,372; 2020, 739 (left out); 2021, 1,001; 2022, 1,131; 2023, 1,266; 2024, 1,229; 2025, 1,098.

  13. Ocean City 4.8

    Ocean City, crashes listed by year: 2019, 79 (set aside); 2020, 0 (left out); 2021, 4 (set aside); 2022, 297; 2023, 313; 2024, 253; 2025, 233.

  14. Passaic 4.9

    Passaic, crashes listed by year: 2019, 1,973; 2020, 1,688 (left out); 2021, 1,755; 2022, 1,885; 2023, 2,007; 2024, 1,845; 2025, 1,874.

  15. Glassboro 5.3

    Glassboro, crashes listed by year: 2019, 669; 2020, 490 (left out); 2021, 551; 2022, 634; 2023, 620; 2024, 519; 2025, 626.

  16. Red Bank 6.0

    Red Bank, crashes listed by year: 2019, 645; 2020, 432 (left out); 2021, 509; 2022, 610; 2023, 545; 2024, 497; 2025, 569.

  17. Asbury Park 6.1

    Asbury Park, crashes listed by year: 2019, 542; 2020, 419 (left out); 2021, 480; 2022, 519; 2023, 497; 2024, 464; 2025, 111 (set aside).

  18. Piscataway 6.5

    Piscataway, crashes listed by year: 2019, 1,839; 2020, 1,204 (left out); 2021, 1,373; 2022, 1,733; 2023, 1,760; 2024, 2,063; 2025, 1,817.

  19. Morristown 6.6

    Morristown, crashes listed by year: 2019, 1,028; 2020, 625 (left out); 2021, 826; 2022, 496 (set aside); 2023, 118 (set aside); 2024, 855; 2025, 875.

  20. Englewood 7.0

    Englewood, crashes listed by year: 2019, 1,127; 2020, 764 (left out); 2021, 954; 2022, 935; 2023, 1,042; 2024, 1,189; 2025, 1,089.

  21. Little Falls 7.8

    Little Falls, crashes listed by year: 2019, 562; 2020, 435 (left out); 2021, 624; 2022, 625; 2023, 481; 2024, 624; 2025, 609.

  22. New Brunswick 8.2

    New Brunswick, crashes listed by year: 2019, 1,802; 2020, 844 (left out); 2021, 1,116 (set aside); 2022, 1,860; 2023, 2,229; 2024, 2,648; 2025, 2,391.

  23. Atlantic City 11.4

    Atlantic City, crashes listed by year: 2019, 2,025; 2020, 1,102 (left out); 2021, 1,633; 2022, 1,887; 2023, 1,729; 2024, 1,640; 2025, 1,574.

  24. East Rutherford 12.0

    East Rutherford, crashes listed by year: 2019, 871; 2020, 440 (left out); 2021, 652; 2022, 746; 2023, 696; 2024, 740; 2025, 797.

Each town's bars are scaled to its own busiest year, so the shapes compare and the heights don't. The counts are in the CSV. Source: NJDOT Crash Data Portal, read October 28, 2026.

How we picked the towns

Every New Jersey town with at least 10,000 residents in 2025 where at least 7% of commuters walk to work, from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2020 to 2024. Commuters here are workers who don't work from home. 23 towns pass.

Montclair is added by name to compare with them, though fewer of its commuters walk to work: 5%.

The share who walk comes from a survey, so a town close to 7% could land on either side of the line in another year's survey.

Years set aside because the portal's records look incomplete: Madison, 2021 to 2023; West New York, 2025; Hoboken, 2023 to 2025; Union City, 2022; Ocean City, 2019 and 2021; Asbury Park, 2025; Morristown, 2022 and 2023; New Brunswick, 2021. West New York's 2025 is still filling in: the portal already lists 511 crashes for 2026, a year still under way, against 428 for all of 2025.

Sources and how we counted

Sources

How we counted

  • Crash counts come from NJDOT's Crash Data Portal: each town's crashes by year and by the worst injury in the crash, read October 28, 2026. NJDOT calls these records preliminary, and older years can still change.
  • A crash that hurt someone is one where the worst injury was a death, or a suspected serious, minor or possible injury, the top four of the five levels police use.
  • With a person on foot or on a bike: the portal's Pedestrian Involved and Bicyclist Involved filters. A crash with both counts in each. A year the portal lists none counts as none.
  • Each rate adds up a town's crashes over the years counted and divides them by its residents in those same years, then multiplies by 1,000 (10,000 for crashes with someone on foot or on a bike). Residents are the Census Bureau's July 1 estimates: 2020 to 2025 from its city and town estimates, 2019 from its intercensal estimates.
  • 2020 is left out for every town: pandemic traffic makes it unlike the years around it.
  • A year is set aside for a town when the portal lists under 60% of its usual crashes, the middle of its other years, since its records look incomplete. 2025 is also set aside when the portal already lists as many crashes for 2026, still under way. Every town keeps at least 3 years, and a town with fewer years has a less steady rate.
  • We checked the portal against NJDOT's final crash tables, which run about 2 years behind, in the 10 Bergen and Hudson County towns on the list. Crashes that hurt someone matched within 1% in 2019, 2021 and 2022. In 2023 the portal lists 7% fewer (1,978 against 2,117), so rates that count 2023 may run a little low.
  • Every crash on a town's roads counts, highways included, whoever was in it. So a town many people drive into or through runs higher than its residents alone would. A rate per resident isn't a risk score for anyone walking or driving there.
  • Residents per square mile: each town's 2025 residents over its land area in the Census Bureau's 2026 Gazetteer. The densest towns are the 4 over 40,000; the next densest has under 23,000.
  • These are police reports. A crash nobody reported isn't here.
  • Crash numbers never change a law firm's score.

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