Photo: Rickyrab at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Fair Lawn: recorded crime, not graded
Fair Lawn’s police reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. There are 64 graded towns within 10 miles. The closest graded town is Glen Rock, 2 miles away, at A−.
For every 1,000 residents, about 9 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2024
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2024
Crimes reported to police in 2024 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2024. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Fair Lawn’s police reported
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| Year | Fair Lawn | Rest of New Jersey | Fair Lawn | Rest of New Jersey |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7.2 | 13.9 | 0.5 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 8.8 | 14.8 | 0.7 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 9.4 | 14.0 | 0.4 | 2.2 |
| 2025 | not reported | 12.6 | not reported | 2.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of New Jersey. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
359 crimes reported in 2024
2024 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
16 violent and 343 property, as reported to the FBI by Fair Lawn’s police.
The nearest New Jersey towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Rock | A− | 2 mi | 0.2 | 6.5 |
| Elmwood Park | C | 2 mi | 2.3 | 19.5 |
| Saddle Brook Township | B | 3 mi | 0.3 | 12.2 |
| Hawthorne | A− | 3 mi | 0.2 | 8.0 |
| Paramus | C− | 3 mi | 0.3 | 39.7 |
| Paterson | D | 3 mi | 9.0 | 23.7 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Fair Lawn. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Fair Lawn.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Seven people died in crashes on Fair Lawn’s roads in 2019–2023
Fair Lawn had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is about what is typical for New Jersey towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (5.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Fair Lawn’s size would see about 10 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Fair Lawn’s own rate (3.9) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Fair Lawn and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paramus | C− | 0.3 | 39.7 |
| Paterson | D | 9.0 | 23.7 |
| Glen Rock | A− | 0.2 | 6.5 |
| Saddle Brook Township | B | 0.3 | 12.2 |
| Hawthorne | A− | 0.2 | 8.0 |
| Elmwood Park | C | 2.3 | 19.5 |
| Rochelle Park Township | B− | 1.2 | 12.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Fair Lawn. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Fair Lawn’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (36,579 in 2024); our figure for Fair Lawn is 37,128 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Fair Lawn
Is Fair Lawn, NJ safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Fair Lawn. The nearest New Jersey towns with a grade are Glen Rock (A−, 2 mi), Elmwood Park (C, 2 mi), Saddle Brook Township (B, 3 mi).
Who polices Fair Lawn?
Fair Lawn’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Fair Lawn”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Fair Lawn.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2024, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.