Carney's Point Township, NJ has a A safety grade (86/100) with a violent crime rate of 58 per 100,000, 84% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Carney's Point Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Carney's Point Township is a small municipal reporter (8,641 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NJ and U.S. context.
Carney's Point Township, NJ is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 84% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Carney's Point Township, NJ shows violent crime at 57.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 891.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 84% 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
57.9/100K violent
891.1/100K property
-84% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Carney's Point Township, NJ
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Carney's Point Township reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,641. 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 157.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 57.9 in 2024 (-63.2%). The highest observed value was 300.4 in 2021 and the lowest 57.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Carney's Point Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Carney's Point Township's 57.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Allentown (58.1), Bellmawr (58.4), North Haledon (57.3), Summit (57.2). 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 68.8% of reported property offenses in Carney's Point Township, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (9) and motor vehicle theft (15). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Carney's Point Township sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 57.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Carney's Point Township ranks 232 of 417 — above 185 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -15.5% 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.
Property counts dominate Carney's Point 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.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,641. 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.
Carney's Point Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Carney's Point Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 82 offenses; mix index 4,659).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-68.6%
184.3 → 57.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
-3.3%
921.3 → 891.1/100K
Property offenses lead Carney's Point Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
77
891.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
53
613.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
15
173.6
-
Burglary
9
104.2
-
Arson
1
11.6
-
Violent Crime
5
57.9
352
Aggravated Assault
4
46.3
-
Robbery
1
11.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Carney's Point Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Carney's Point Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Carney's Point Township: 58 violent, 891 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Dunellen: 93 violent, 829 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Closter: 12 violent, 1192 property per 100,000 (grade A)
North Haledon: 57 violent, 286 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
West Long Branch: 47 violent, 1147 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Runnemede: 82 violent, 1935 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Hardyston Township: 59 violent, 212 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Long Hill Township: 23 violent, 318 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Northfield: 0 violent, 1080 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Carney's Point Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Carney's Point Township NIBRS-participating
Carney's Point Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Carney's Point Township's 82 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.
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Carney's Point Township in population. Their populations run from 8,427 to 8,804, against 8,641 here. Or use our
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How many crimes were reported in Carney's Point Township?
In 2024, Carney's Point Township reported 5 violent crimes and 77 property crimes, for a total of 82 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Carney's Point Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Carney's Point Township's violent crime rate decreased by 68.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.3%.
What is the most common crime in Carney's Point Township?
The most common crime type in Carney's Point Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.6% of all reported crimes (53 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Carney's Point Township 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Carney's Point Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.