Ewing Township, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 29% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ewing Township, NJ shows violent crime at 250.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,373.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
250.6/100K violent
2373.4/100K property
-29% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Ewing Township, NJ
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 134.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 250.6 in 2024 (+85.8%). The highest observed value was 250.6 in 2024 and the lowest 134.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Ewing Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 250.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ewing Township ranks 47 of 417 — above 370 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +267.7% 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
Ewing Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ewing Township's 250.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pennsauken Township (251.4), Belleville (249.6), Riverside Township (247.6), Mount Holly Township (254.6). 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 counts dominate Ewing 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.
Ewing Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Ewing Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 911 offenses; mix index 5,507).
Violent offenses are only 10% 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
-19.8%
2960.9 → 2373.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+6.2%
236 → 250.6/100K
Property offenses lead Ewing Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
824
2373.4
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
664
1912.6
-
Burglary
84
241.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
76
218.9
-
Arson
1
2.9
-
Violent Crime
87
250.6
215.7
Aggravated Assault
52
149.8
-
Robbery
19
54.7
-
Rape
15
43.2
-
Murder
1
2.9
-
Ewing Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Ewing Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose 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
Ewing Township: 251 violent, 2373 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Orange City: 454 violent, 1750 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Freehold Township: 157 violent, 1509 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Garfield: 199 violent, 1751 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Long Branch: 242 violent, 1628 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Fair Lawn: 44 violent, 938 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Willingboro Township: 348 violent, 1298 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Lawrence Township, Mercer County: 28 violent, 1829 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Voorhees Township: 78 violent, 1586 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ewing Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Ewing Township NIBRS-participating
Ewing Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ewing Township's 911 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
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Ewing Township at 250.6/100K violent and 2,373.4/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Ewing Township reported 87 violent crimes and 824 property crimes, for a total of 911 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Ewing Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Ewing Township's violent crime rate increased by 6.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.8%.
What is the most common crime in Ewing Township?
The most common crime type in Ewing Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.9% of all reported crimes (664 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Ewing 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 Ewing Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.