Burlington City, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 7% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Burlington City, NJ shows violent crime at 375.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,666.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 7% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
375.3/100K violent
2666.7/100K property
+7% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Burlington City, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Burlington City reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 375.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Burlington City ranks 27 of 417 — above 390 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +450.7% 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.
Comparable rate records
Burlington City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Burlington City's 375.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are North Wildwood (363.7), Wildwood (390.8), Perth Amboy (391.8), Maple Shade Township (352.7). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 12.3% of the 308 Part I offenses reported in Burlington City for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 5.2 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 Burlington City'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.
Burlington City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 3 Census sq mi, Burlington City logged 89 property and 12.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Burlington City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 308 offenses; mix index 5,291).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property offenses lead Burlington City's 2024 record
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Burlington City: 375 violent, 2667 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Bogota: 49 violent, 454 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Hackettstown: 10 violent, 515 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Mount Holly Township: 255 violent, 1596 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Maywood: 147 violent, 1398 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Kinnelon: 10 violent, 351 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Hillsdale: 0 violent, 263 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Woodbury: 213 violent, 1784 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Waldwick: 19 violent, 348 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Burlington City in population. Their populations run from 10,090 to 10,332, against 10,125 here. Or use our
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Burlington City at 375.3/100K violent and 2,666.7/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Burlington City reported 38 violent crimes and 270 property crimes, for a total of 308 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Burlington City?
The most common crime type in Burlington City is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.1% of all reported crimes (219 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Burlington City 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Burlington City, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.