Berkeley Township, NJ has a A safety grade (82/100) with a violent crime rate of 132 per 100,000, 63% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Berkeley Township (46,319 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 2026-09-05
Berkeley Township, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 63% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Berkeley Township, NJ shows violent crime at 131.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 591.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 63% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 71.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 131.7 in 2024 (+85.1%). The highest observed value was 144.4 in 2022 and the lowest 65.4 in 2021. 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 Berkeley Township's 131.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fort Lee (131.0), Pine Beach (132.5), Berlin Township (130.5), South Toms River (129.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 18.2% of the 335 Part I offenses reported in Berkeley Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 11.1 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 131.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Berkeley Township ranks 123 of 417 — above 294 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +93.3% 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 counts dominate Berkeley 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.
Berkeley Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 335 offenses; mix index 4,982).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Berkeley 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 | 274 | 591.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 228 | 492.2 |
| Burglary | 33 | 71.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 28.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 2.2 |
| Violent Crime | 61 | 131.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 51 | 110.1 |
| Rape | 8 | 17.3 |
| Robbery | 2 | 4.3 |
| 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 | 42,168 | 71.1 | 559.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 44,366 | 65.4 | 480.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 45,006 | 144.4 | 648.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 45,509 | 112.1 | 1015.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 46,319 | 131.7 | 591.5 |
Berkeley Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Berkeley Township's 335 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 Berkeley Township in population. Their populations run from 45,184 to 47,892, against 46,319 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Berkeley Township sits at 131.7/100K violent (grade A); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Berkeley Township at 131.7/100K violent and 591.5/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
131.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
591.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+17.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Berkeley Township reported 61 violent crimes and 274 property crimes, for a total of 335 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Berkeley Township's violent crime rate increased by 17.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 41.7%.
The most common crime type in Berkeley Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.1% of all reported crimes (228 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Berkeley 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 Berkeley Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Berkeley Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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