Burlington Township, NJ has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 170 per 100,000, 52% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Burlington Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Burlington Township (24,155 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Burlington Township, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 52% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Burlington Township, NJ shows violent crime at 169.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 948 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% 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.
A safety grade
169.7/100K violent
948/100K property
-52% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Burlington Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
Burlington Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Burlington Township's 169.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mansfield Township, Burlington County (166.2), Clifton (165.8), Cherry Hill Township (173.9), Avalon (165.2). 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
Burlington Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 169.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Burlington Township ranks 85 of 417 — above 332 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +149.1% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 15.2% of the 270 Part I offenses reported in Burlington Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 8.0 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 73.4% of reported property offenses in Burlington Township, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (32) and motor vehicle theft (29). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 154.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 169.7 in 2024 (+9.6%). The highest observed value was 174.2 in 2023 and the lowest 30.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Burlington 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.
Burlington Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Burlington Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 270 offenses; mix index 4,259).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-11.1%
1066 → 948/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-2.6%
174.2 → 169.7/100K
Property offenses lead Burlington Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
229
948
1711
Larceny-Theft
168
695.5
-
Burglary
32
132.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
29
120.1
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
41
169.7
352
Aggravated Assault
30
124.2
-
Robbery
6
24.8
-
Rape
5
20.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Burlington Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Burlington Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Reporting agency for Burlington Township NIBRS-participating
Burlington Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Burlington Township's 270 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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.
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Burlington Township in population. Their populations run from 23,773 to 24,820, against 24,155 here. Or use our
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Burlington Township at 169.7/100K violent and 948/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Burlington Township?
In 2024, Burlington Township reported 41 violent crimes and 229 property crimes, for a total of 270 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Burlington Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Burlington Township's violent crime rate decreased by 2.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.1%.
What is the most common crime in Burlington Township?
The most common crime type in Burlington Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.2% of all reported crimes (168 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Burlington 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Burlington Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.