Belmar, NJ has a B safety grade (72/100) with a violent crime rate of 121 per 100,000, 66% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Belmar is a small municipal reporter (5,792 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NJ and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Belmar, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 66% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Belmar, NJ shows violent crime at 120.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,864.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 66% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Belmar reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,792. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 72.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 120.9 in 2024 (+66.7%). The highest observed value was 120.9 in 2024 and the lowest 68.2 in 2022. 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 Belmar's 120.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Edgewater Park Township (122.2), East Newark (123.1), Bloomfield (123.3), Montclair (118.1). 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 120.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Belmar ranks 139 of 417 — above 278 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +77.3% 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 93.5% of reported property offenses in Belmar, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (6) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Belmar'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 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,792. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 1 Census sq mi, Belmar logged 103.3 property and 6.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Belmar's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (88% of 115 offenses; mix index 7,763).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Belmar offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1 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 | 108 | 1864.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 101 | 1743.8 |
| Burglary | 6 | 103.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 17.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 7 | 120.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 86.3 |
| Robbery | 2 | 34.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,518 | 72.5 | 2120.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,514 | 108.8 | 1323.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,868 | 68.2 | 2010.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,840 | 102.7 | 1661 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,792 | 120.9 | 1864.6 |
Belmar Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Belmar's 115 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 Belmar in population. Their populations run from 5,629 to 5,899, against 5,792 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Belmar sits at 120.9/100K violent (grade B); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Belmar reported 7 violent crimes and 108 property crimes, for a total of 115 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Belmar's violent crime rate increased by 17.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 12.3%.
The most common crime type in Belmar is larceny-theft, accounting for 87.8% of all reported crimes (101 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Belmar is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Belmar's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Belmar, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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