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Sex Offenders in Clifton, NJ

We index about 30 registered sex offenders with a Clifton address.

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Registered sex offenders in Clifton by the numbers. About 1 in 3,010 residents is on the registry.

30
registrants we index with a Clifton address
3.3
per 10,000 residents · New Jersey 4.9
under 1%
of the registrants we index in New Jersey
16th of 17
New Jersey cities by number · 16th by rate
  • About 30 registrants we index list a Clifton address — about 1 in 3,010 residents.
  • That is 3.3 per 10,000 residents, about 33% below the New Jersey average of 4.9.
  • Clifton accounts for under 1% of the registrants we index in New Jersey.
  • It ranks 16th of the 17 New Jersey cities we publish pages for by number of registrants we index, and 16th of 17 by rate per resident.
  • Clifton is in Passaic County, where we index about 504 registrants — Clifton is about 6% of that.
  • The closest cities we publish pages for are Passaic (about 2 miles away), Paterson (about 4 miles), East Orange (about 7 miles), Newark (about 9 miles) and Union City (about 10 miles).

Counts are registrants we index with a Clifton address as of October 2026, rounded and approximate — not an official figure. The figure moves continuously — search for the current picture on any specific person. Rates use 2020 Census population. New Jersey sex offender statistics.

Clifton sex offender rate: how Clifton compares. Clifton against New Jersey and the US.

Registrants we index per 10,000 residents as of October 2026, against the New Jersey and national averages. All three rows come from the same continuously updated dataset, so the comparison divides like by like.

AreaRegistrants we indexPer 10,000 residents
Clifton, NJ303.3
New Jersey average4,5374.9
United States average1,563,01047.2

Sex offenders near your Clifton address: a city-wide figure is not your street. How many live near your Clifton address?

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Sex offenders near me in Clifton — and everywhere else at once. Checking a date, a neighbor or a new sitter? Type their name.

People move. A check limited to Clifton misses a registration anywhere else, so a search here covers every US registry — the 50 states, DC and the territories — and lets you narrow to Clifton by city or ZIP when that is the question. Every result is scored, carries its photographs, and links to the official registry record.

Checking around a specific address? Search sex offenders near me by address or ZIP. Looking wider than Clifton? See the Passaic County sex offender registry. Searching the whole state? See the New Jersey sex offender registry.

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Jordan A. SampleMatch · full birth date
Born1980-04-12 · age 46Addressresidence · 1200 block Main St, Clifton, NJOffenseSexual offense against a childTierModerate risk · compliantRegistryNew Jersey Sex Offender Internet Registry
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Sex offenders in other cities in Passaic County. Other cities in Passaic County, side by side with Clifton.

Registrants we index in the other Passaic County cities we publish pages for — useful when you live near a city line, or are checking a commute, a school or a relative’s neighborhood.

CityRegistrants we indexPer 10,000 residents
Clifton303.3
Paterson29718.6
Passaic8111.5
Passaic County (all)5049.6

New Jersey sex offender registry: how New Jersey’s registry works for a Clifton search. Three things that make a Clifton search accurate.

01New Jersey's registry publishes a full date of birth, so if you know the person's birthday a match can be confirmed precisely. With a common name, a matching date of birth is the fastest way to tell two people apart.
02New Jersey’s own public search is New Jersey Sex Offender Internet Registry. The official search is operated by a third-party notification vendor and runs one law-enforcement agency at a time rather than statewide in one query. It answers for New Jersey only. People move across state lines, and a check limited to New Jersey misses a registration made anywhere else. A Clifton search here reaches New Jersey, its neighbors (Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania) and every other US registry in the same pass — so a registration from a prior state still surfaces on someone who now lives in Clifton.
03Read the record, not just the name. Names repeat, so confirm the photograph, the date of birth or age, and the offense detail, then follow the official record link to verify at the source.

Clifton sex offender search by address: search near an address in Clifton. Start from the street you care about.

The question most people bring to a Clifton page is about one street — a home you are renting, a school, a park, a babysitter’s house. Enter that address or its ZIP code and pick a radius: a few blocks for a single home, a mile or more for a neighborhood. Results are the full registry records nearest that point, with photographs, offenses and the link to the official record.

Radius search sees registrants whose published address we have placed on a map coordinate, so when you are checking a particular person, search their name as well. To keep watching an area rather than checking once, set up a location alert and you will be emailed when someone registered nearby is added or moves in.

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Clifton sex offender map. Each dot is a registered address; the rings are drawn around yours.

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New Jersey sex offender record: what a New Jersey registry record shows — and what it doesn’t. Read the record, not just the name.

A registry record typically carries the registrant’s name and any aliases, a photograph, the address they last reported, the offense or offenses that required registration, and their registration status. Most also give a physical description, and many give a risk level or tier.

What it is not: a full criminal history. A registry lists the offenses that carry a registration duty, not every arrest or conviction, and an address is where someone last reported living, not proof of where they are today. Offenses that never required registration will not appear here at all — that is what a criminal records search is for.

How to read a record · Criminal record search

Search sex offenders in Clifton two ways. Two ways to use it: look up a person, or check around an address.

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Look someone up by name

Type a name and get the people who match — photographs, addresses, offenses, and the official record behind each one. Upload a CSV to check a whole list. Your searches are stored with the results you saw, so you keep an audit trail.

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Clifton offender search FAQ. Quick answers before you search.

Are there sex offenders near me in Clifton?

Yes — we index about 30 registrants with a Clifton address, about 3.3 per 10,000 residents. Whether any live near you depends on the street, not the city average, so search from your own address or ZIP and widen the radius until it covers the area you care about.

How many sex offenders are in Clifton, NJ?

We index approximately 30 registrants with a Clifton address — about 1 in 3,010 residents. Treat the figure as scale rather than a fixed number: the registered population moves continuously as people are added, move, or are released from the requirement. When you need an answer about a specific person, run a search.

How do I find sex offenders in Clifton by address?

Enter a Clifton street address or ZIP code and create a free account to see how many registered sex offenders live near it. To see who they are — names, photographs, offenses and exact addresses — it is $5 once, or $5 a month with an email when someone moves in or out. Checking one person? Search by name; your first 25 searches are free.

Is there a Passaic County sex offender list?

Registries are kept by the state, not the county, so there is no separate official county list. The Passaic County page lists the registrants we index across the county (about 504), with a per-city breakdown, and a search can be narrowed to any Passaic County city or ZIP.

How do I check a specific person in Clifton?

Type their last name and add whatever else you hold — first name, date of birth, or narrow to Clifton by city or ZIP. You get scored matches with photographs and official record links. Your first 25 searches are free, no card required.

Does a Clifton search include people registered in other states?

Yes — that is the point of searching here rather than one state's site. A search runs across every US registry at once, so someone now in Clifton who was registered elsewhere still surfaces. Narrowing to Clifton filters where people live; it never shrinks where we look.

Which cities near Clifton have their own sex offender page?

Nearby, we publish pages for Passaic (about 2 miles away), Paterson (about 4 miles), East Orange (about 7 miles), Newark (about 9 miles) and Union City (about 10 miles), each with its own count. Distances are straight lines between the cities. To cover the area around one address instead, search outward from it and widen the radius past the city line.

Can I get an alert when a registered sex offender moves to Clifton?

Yes. A location monitor watches an address and radius in Clifton and emails you when someone registered nearby is added or moves in, so you are not re-running the same search every few weeks.

Is this the official registry list?

No single official "list of sex offenders in Clifton" exists — registries are maintained per jurisdiction, not per city. What you search here is our continuously updated national dataset, each record carrying a link to its official registry entry so you can verify any result at the source that published it.

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