Ranking of New Jersey Cities By Violent Crime Rate Per 100K in 2022
Updated on January 9, 2025.
According to the FBI UCR data, in 2022, among New Jersey cities with a population of at least 10K, Atlantic City had the highest Violent Crime Rate per 100K residents (1,690.82), followed by Camden County Police Department (1,570.88), Asbury Park (1,078.31), Trenton (1,062.97), and New Brunswick (857.59).
The chart below shows the top 10 cities with high Violent crime rate in 2022, and the table below shows the ranking of New Jersey cities with a population of at least 10K, based on the Violent crime rate per 100K.
You can see similar rankings of cities for other crime types in New Jersey, and the ranking of all cities in the US.
Hover over or click on the bars in the chart below, to see the number of Violent crimes for each city. The data can also be found in a table below. You can use the table to sort, filter, and explore the data further.
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Data Source: FBI UCR.
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Ranking of New Jersey Cities By Violent Crime Rate Per 100K in 2022
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| Rank | City | Crime Rate Per 100K |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atlantic City | 1690.82 |
| 2 | Camden County Police Department | 1570.88 |
| 3 | Asbury Park | 1078.31 |
| 4 | Trenton | 1062.97 |
| 5 | New Brunswick | 857.59 |
| 6 | Bridgeton | 705.02 |
| 7 | Passaic | 543.46 |
| 8 | Newark | 519.86 |
| 9 | Millville | 504.54 |
| 10 | Elizabeth | 480.36 |
| 11 | Vineland | 458.19 |
| 12 | Plainfield | 452.30 |
| 13 | Neptune Township | 389.60 |
| 14 | Lindenwold | 385.62 |
| 15 | Orange City | 365.91 |
| 16 | Englewood | 362.38 |
| 17 | Woodbury | 356.15 |
| 18 | Union City | 334.85 |
| 19 | Perth Amboy | 329.54 |
| 20 | Linden | 323.01 |
| 21 | Middle Township | 307.03 |
| 22 | Phillipsburg | 305.71 |
| 23 | Maple Shade Township | 301.34 |
| 24 | Bayonne | 300.05 |
| 25 | Harrison | 300.02 |
| 26 | Hammonton | 296.08 |
| 27 | Pennsauken Township | 284.96 |
| 28 | Winslow Township | 263.28 |
| 29 | Somers Point | 257.95 |
| 30 | West New York | 247.98 |
| 31 | Hillside Township | 240.63 |
| 32 | Deptford Township | 237.44 |
| 33 | Gloucester City | 236.22 |
| 34 | Secaucus | 233.93 |
| 35 | Glassboro | 232.06 |
| 36 | Hamilton Township, Mercer County | 222.08 |
| 37 | Jersey City | 220.41 |
| 38 | Collingswood | 219.73 |
| 39 | Pleasantville | 218.42 |
| 40 | North Brunswick Township | 216.50 |
| 41 | Hackensack | 206.99 |
| 42 | Eatontown | 205.78 |
| 43 | Ewing Township | 203.17 |
| 44 | Morristown | 191.01 |
| 45 | Elmwood Park | 189.09 |
| 46 | Woodbridge Township | 188.39 |
| 47 | Long Branch | 187.35 |
| 48 | West Orange | 178.12 |
| 49 | Belleville | 176.72 |
| 50 | Bellmawr | 171.75 |
| 51 | Edison Township | 163.81 |
| 52 | Galloway Township | 163.33 |
| 53 | North Plainfield | 160.76 |
| 54 | Franklin Township, Gloucester County | 156.82 |
| 55 | Red Bank | 154.72 |
| 56 | Hoboken | 154.71 |
| 57 | Fort Lee | 153.90 |
| 58 | Piscataway Township | 153.67 |
| 59 | Hamilton Township, Atlantic County | 153.54 |
| 60 | Lower Township | 152.89 |
| 61 | Lacey Township | 150.49 |
| 62 | Pennsville Township | 150.19 |
| 63 | Cherry Hill Township | 146.60 |
| 64 | Berkeley Township | 144.43 |
| 65 | Rahway | 139.31 |
| 66 | Brick Township | 138.95 |
| 67 | North Bergen Township | 137.04 |
| 68 | Highland Park | 134.10 |
| 69 | Lodi | 131.84 |
| 70 | Roselle | 125.80 |
| 71 | Gloucester Township | 124.53 |
| 72 | Ocean Township, Monmouth County | 124.47 |
| 73 | Ocean City | 124.36 |
| 74 | Aberdeen Township | 124.06 |
| 75 | Washington Township, Gloucester County | 120.91 |
| 76 | Kearny | 120.80 |
| 77 | South Brunswick Township | 120.58 |
| 78 | South Plainfield | 119.78 |
| 79 | Garfield | 111.28 |
| 80 | Bound Brook | 108.81 |
| 81 | Point Pleasant | 107.69 |
| 82 | Ridgefield Park | 107.14 |
| 83 | Montclair | 107.01 |
| 84 | Medford Township | 106.35 |
| 85 | Little Falls Township | 105.90 |
| 86 | Clifton | 104.77 |
| 87 | Maplewood Township | 103.64 |
| 88 | Wall Township | 102.05 |
| 89 | Harrison Township | 100.82 |
| 90 | Franklin Township, Somerset County | 97.41 |
| 91 | Tinton Falls | 97.16 |
| 92 | Wayne Township | 96.60 |
| 93 | Hopatcong | 96.15 |
| 94 | Burlington Township | 96.13 |
| 95 | Teaneck Township | 92.58 |
| 96 | East Brunswick Township | 91.77 |
| 97 | Beachwood | 89.38 |
| 98 | Bloomfield | 87.35 |
| 99 | Lakewood Township | 87.12 |
| 100 | Sayreville | 86.70 |
| 101 | Freehold Township | 86.61 |
| 102 | Manville | 83.62 |
| 103 | Totowa | 83.23 |
| 104 | Pompton Lakes | 82.76 |
| 105 | Toms River Township | 82.63 |
| 106 | Monroe Township, Gloucester County | 81.11 |
| 107 | Fairview | 80.81 |
| 108 | Somerville | 78.38 |
| 109 | Howell Township | 77.67 |
| 110 | Egg Harbor Township | 77.49 |
| 111 | Weehawken Township | 74.29 |
| 112 | Barnegat Township | 71.59 |
| 113 | Palisades Park | 70.03 |
| 114 | Rockaway Township | 68.24 |
| 115 | Branchburg Township | 68.07 |
| 116 | Delran Township | 67.33 |
| 117 | Evesham Township | 67.12 |
| 118 | Hazlet Township | 63.27 |
| 119 | South River | 62.98 |
| 120 | Hanover Township | 61.52 |
| 121 | Scotch Plains Township | 61.25 |
| 122 | Old Bridge Township | 60.40 |
| 123 | Springfield Township, Union County | 59.31 |
| 124 | Pequannock Township | 57.84 |
| 125 | Marlboro Township | 57.73 |
| 126 | Florence Township | 54.92 |
| 127 | Lyndhurst Township | 54.10 |
| 128 | Edgewater | 54.08 |
| 129 | Woodland Park | 53.15 |
| 130 | Clark Township | 52.26 |
| 131 | Hopewell Township | 51.91 |
| 132 | Manchester Township | 51.88 |
| 133 | Morris Township | 51.16 |
| 134 | Wallington | 51.07 |
| 135 | Fair Lawn | 50.81 |
| 136 | Readington Township | 48.94 |
| 137 | Middlesex Borough | 48.53 |
| 138 | Mount Olive Township | 44.87 |
| 139 | Roselle Park | 43.40 |
| 140 | Stafford Township | 42.81 |
| 141 | Bergenfield | 42.73 |
| 142 | Lawrence Township, Mercer County | 42.49 |
| 143 | East Windsor Township | 40.28 |
| 144 | South Orange Village | 38.83 |
| 145 | Paramus | 38.11 |
| 146 | Dumont | 37.77 |
| 147 | Rutherford | 37.65 |
| 148 | Cranford Township | 37.29 |
| 149 | Lincoln Park | 36.68 |
| 150 | Wanaque | 36.07 |
| 151 | Jackson Township | 34.56 |
| 152 | Ramsey | 34.20 |
| 153 | Glen Rock | 33.29 |
| 154 | Haddonfield | 32.09 |
| 155 | Oakland | 31.71 |
| 156 | Summit | 31.23 |
| 157 | West Windsor Township | 30.56 |
| 158 | Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | 30.25 |
| 159 | Ridgewood | 30.21 |
| 160 | Lopatcong Township | 29.83 |
| 161 | Florham Park | 29.23 |
| 162 | Princeton | 29.22 |
| 163 | Cedar Grove Township | 28.94 |
| 164 | Hackettstown | 28.88 |
| 165 | Saddle Brook Township | 27.76 |
| 166 | Cliffside Park | 27.42 |
| 167 | Tenafly | 26.47 |
| 168 | Randolph Township | 26.42 |
| 169 | Ridgefield | 26.39 |
| 170 | Plainsboro Township | 25.21 |
| 171 | Hasbrouck Heights | 24.99 |
| 172 | Sparta Township | 24.57 |
| 173 | Manalapan Township | 24.45 |
| 174 | Mahwah Township | 23.86 |
| 175 | Livingston Township | 22.70 |
| 176 | Washington Township, Morris County | 22.01 |
| 177 | Clinton Township | 21.80 |
| 178 | Verona | 21.02 |
| 179 | Hawthorne | 20.87 |
| 180 | West Milford Township | 20.52 |
| 181 | Waldwick | 19.89 |
| 182 | Jefferson Township | 19.51 |
| 183 | Waterford Township | 19.24 |
| 184 | Warren Township | 19.05 |
| 185 | Franklin Lakes | 18.35 |
| 186 | Millburn Township | 17.84 |
| 187 | Raritan Township | 16.53 |
| 188 | Westfield | 16.33 |
| 189 | Berkeley Heights Township | 15.27 |
| 190 | Hillsborough Township | 13.99 |
| 191 | Monroe Township, Middlesex County | 10.40 |
| 192 | Hillsdale | 9.99 |
| 193 | Park Ridge | 9.96 |
| 194 | Raritan | 9.43 |
| 195 | West Caldwell Township | 9.30 |
| 196 | East Hanover Township | 9.01 |
| 197 | Roxbury Township | 8.59 |
| 198 | River Edge | 8.37 |
| 199 | New Providence | 7.38 |
| 200 | Woolwich Township | 7.34 |
| 201 | New Milford | 5.92 |
| 202 | Holmdel Township | 5.74 |
| 203 | Montgomery Township | 4.27 |
| 204 | Bernards Township | 3.61 |
| 205 | Chatham Township | 0.00 |
| 205 | Denville Township | 0.00 |
| 205 | Ringwood | 0.00 |
| 205 | Vernon Township | 0.00 |