Aberdeen Township, NJ has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 156 per 100,000, 56% below the national average.
Aberdeen Township (19,211 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Aberdeen Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 56% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Aberdeen Township, NJ shows violent crime at 156.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 858.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
The verdict
Aberdeen Township earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 56% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 77.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 156.2 in 2024 (+102.7%). The highest observed value was 156.2 in 2024 and the lowest 77.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Aberdeen Township's 156.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Phillipsburg (156.2), Bloomingdale (155.6), Lower Township (155.6), Long Beach Township (155.3). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
At 156.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Aberdeen Township ranks 95 of 417 — above 322 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +129.2% against the cohort median of 68.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 15.4% of the 195 Part I offenses reported in Aberdeen Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 8.2 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Aberdeen Township's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 165 | 858.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 144 | 749.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 | 62.5 |
| Burglary | 9 | 46.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 5.2 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 156.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 | 130.1 |
| Rape | 4 | 20.8 |
| Robbery | 1 | 5.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 19,471 | 77 | 570.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 19,475 | 87.3 | 539.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 19,345 | 124.1 | 584.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 19,249 | 150.7 | 789.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,211 | 156.2 | 858.9 |
Aberdeen Township's crime figures on this page originate from Aberdeen Township Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Aberdeen Township in population. Their populations run from 18,437 to 20,068, against 19,211 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Aberdeen Township's 156.2/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: Aberdeen Township figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Aberdeen Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Aberdeen Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Aberdeen Township is scored in the mid-size municipal band (19,211 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.