Barnegat Township, NJ has a A+ safety grade (93/100) with a violent crime rate of 64 per 100,000, 82% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Barnegat Township (26,713 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Barnegat Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 82% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Barnegat Township, NJ shows violent crime at 63.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 78.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 82% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 44.7% of the 38 Part I offenses reported in Barnegat Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 37.6 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.
Small-count caution
Barnegat Township reported 17 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 26,713. 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 Barnegat Township's 63.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mantua Township (63.1), Springfield Township, Union County (64.2), Logan Township (64.2), Moorestown Township (64.7). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 90.5% of reported property offenses in Barnegat Township, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 70.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 63.6 in 2024 (-10.2%). The highest observed value was 102.4 in 2021 and the lowest 63.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 63.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Barnegat Township ranks 217 of 417 — above 200 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -7.1% against the cohort median of 68.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Barnegat Township's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 17 reported violent incidents in a population of 26,713. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Barnegat Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (50% of 38 offenses; mix index 4,307).
Violent offenses are 45% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Barnegat Township offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 21 | 78.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 19 | 71.1 |
| Burglary | 2 | 7.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 17 | 63.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 16 | 59.9 |
| Rape | 1 | 3.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 23,998 | 70.8 | 508.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 25,395 | 102.4 | 358.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 25,142 | 71.6 | 433.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 25,488 | 86.3 | 294.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 26,713 | 63.6 | 78.6 |
Barnegat Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Barnegat Township's 38 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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 Barnegat Township in population. Their populations run from 26,296 to 27,294, against 26,713 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Barnegat Township sits at 63.6/100K violent (grade A+); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Barnegat Township at 63.6/100K violent and 78.6/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
63.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
78.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-26.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Barnegat Township reported 17 violent crimes and 21 property crimes, for a total of 38 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Barnegat Township's violent crime rate decreased by 26.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 73.3%.
The most common crime type in Barnegat Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (19 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Barnegat 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 Barnegat Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Barnegat Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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