These 25 NJ Towns Had The Most DUI Arrests, According To State Court Data

New Jersey police filed 28,048 DUI cases between July 2024 and June 2025. That's up about 6% from the 26,447 filed the year before, and it works out to roughly 77 drunk or drugged driving charges every single day somewhere in the state.

So where are all those arrests actually happening? We went straight to the source: the New Jersey Judiciary's official Municipal Court Statistics report, which tracks every DWI case filed in every municipal court in the state. We pulled the numbers for all 564 courts and ranked the towns with the most DUI filings over the most recent full year of data.

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Some of the names on the list won't surprise you. Big cities like Newark, Camden, and Jersey City have a lot of people and a lot of cars, so they'll rack up big numbers. But a few smaller towns punch way above their weight, and some places saw their arrest totals jump by more than 50% in a single year.

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A quick note before you start sending this to your group chat: these numbers measure arrests, not convictions. A DUI charge is not a guilty verdict. And a high number can mean a town has a drinking and driving problem, or it can mean the local police department makes impaired driving enforcement a priority, or that a busy highway runs right through town. Usually it's some mix of all three.

In New Jersey, the official charge is DWI (driving while intoxicated), and it covers both alcohol and drugs. Most people just call it a DUI, so we use both terms here.