Deal, NJ is among the safest cities in the country, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Deal, NJ shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,163.8 per 100,000. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
0/100K violent
3163.8/100K property
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Deal, NJ
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Deal reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 885. 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 139.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024 (-100.0%). The highest observed value was 139.9 in 2020 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Deal reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Deal ranks 379 of 417 — above 0 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -100.0% 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.
Comparable rate records
Deal's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Deal's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Allendale (0.0), Allenhurst (0.0), Bay Head (0.0), Belvidere (0.0). 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 50.0% of reported property offenses in Deal, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 0.0% of the 28 Part I offenses reported in Deal for 2024, against a median of 7.2% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 7.2 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 Deal'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 0 reported violent incidents in a population of 885. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Deal's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 1.2 Census sq mi, Deal logged 23.6 property and 0 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Deal's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (50% of 28 offenses; mix index 4,171).
Violent offenses are only 0% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.2 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 rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+4.6%
3023.5 → 3163.8/100K
Property offenses lead Deal's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
vs US avg
Property Crime
28
3163.8
1395.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
14
1581.9
-
-
Burglary
11
1242.9
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
3
339
-
-
Arson
1
113
-
-
Violent Crime
0
0
215.7
352
Murder
0
0
-
-
Rape
0
0
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Aggravated Assault
0
0
-
-
Deal Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Deal 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
Deal: 0 violent, 3164 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Longport: 0 violent, 1147 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Hi-Nella: 632 violent, 316 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Interlaken: 0 violent, 123 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Stone Harbor: 0 violent, 6827 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Bay Head: 0 violent, 1101 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Beach Haven: 91 violent, 13768 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Avalon: 165 violent, 9992 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Allenhurst: 0 violent, 2796 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Deal Police Department
Reporting agency for Deal NIBRS-participating
Deal Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Deal's 28 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 Deal in population. Their populations run from 465 to 1,211, against 885 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Deal reported 0 violent crimes and 28 property crimes, for a total of 28 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Deal?
From 2023 to 2024, Deal's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate increased by 4.6%.
What is the most common crime in Deal?
The most common crime type in Deal is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (14 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Deal's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.