Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 103 per 100,000, 71% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Avon-by-the-Sea's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,935). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NJ and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 71% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ shows violent crime at 103.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,498.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% 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.
Small-count caution
Avon-by-the-Sea reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,935. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Avon-by-the-Sea's 103.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cinnaminson Township (102.0), Little Falls Township (101.6), South Brunswick Township (101.1), Brigantine (105.7). 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 103.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Avon-by-the-Sea ranks 154 of 417 — above 263 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +51.7% 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.
Property counts dominate Avon-by-the-Sea'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.
Based on 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,935. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.4 Census sq mi, Avon-by-the-Sea logged 68.1 property and 4.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Avon-by-the-Sea's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 31 offenses; mix index 6,275).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Avon-by-the-Sea offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 29 | 1498.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 24 | 1240.3 |
| Burglary | 5 | 258.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 2 | 103.4 |
| Robbery | 1 | 51.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 51.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,771 | 0 | 4912.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,772 | 56.4 | 1185.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,899 | 0 | 1790.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,945 | 0 | 1953.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,935 | 103.4 | 1498.7 |
Avon-by-the-Sea Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Avon-by-the-Sea's 31 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Avon-by-the-Sea in population. Their populations run from 1,742 to 2,128, against 1,935 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Avon-by-the-Sea sits at 103.4/100K violent (grade A); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Avon-by-the-Sea reported 2 violent crimes and 29 property crimes, for a total of 31 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Avon-by-the-Sea's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.3%.
The most common crime type in Avon-by-the-Sea is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.4% of all reported crimes (24 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Avon-by-the-Sea's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Avon-by-the-Sea's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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