Egg Harbor Township, NJ has a B safety grade (71/100) with a violent crime rate of 146 per 100,000, 58% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Egg Harbor Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Egg Harbor Township (47,892 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Egg Harbor Township, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 58% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Egg Harbor Township, NJ shows violent crime at 146.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,674.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 58% below the U.S. average. 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
146.2/100K violent
1674.6/100K property
-58% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
Egg Harbor Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Egg Harbor Township's 146.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Newton (146.2), Palmyra (146.5), Maywood (146.6), Florence Township (147.0). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Egg Harbor Township sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 146.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Egg Harbor Township ranks 111 of 417 — above 306 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +114.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 118.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 146.2 in 2024 (+23.1%). The highest observed value was 146.2 in 2024 and the lowest 47.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Egg Harbor 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.
Egg Harbor Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Egg Harbor Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 872 offenses; mix index 5,701).
Violent offenses are only 8% 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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-32.1%
2464.7 → 1674.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+11.5%
131.1 → 146.2/100K
Property offenses lead Egg Harbor Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
802
1674.6
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
643
1342.6
-
Burglary
127
265.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
32
66.8
-
Arson
4
8.4
-
Violent Crime
70
146.2
215.7
Aggravated Assault
52
108.6
-
Robbery
10
20.9
-
Rape
8
16.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Egg Harbor Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Egg Harbor 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 averages
Egg Harbor Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Egg Harbor Township NIBRS-participating
Egg Harbor Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Egg Harbor Township's 872 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 Egg Harbor Township in population. Their populations run from 46,319 to 49,011, against 47,892 here. Or use our
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Egg Harbor Township at 146.2/100K violent and 1,674.6/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Egg Harbor Township?
In 2024, Egg Harbor Township reported 70 violent crimes and 802 property crimes, for a total of 872 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Egg Harbor Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Egg Harbor Township's violent crime rate increased by 11.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 32.1%.
What is the most common crime in Egg Harbor Township?
The most common crime type in Egg Harbor Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.7% of all reported crimes (643 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Egg Harbor 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 Egg Harbor Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.