Florence Township, NJ has a A safety grade (82/100) with a violent crime rate of 147 per 100,000, 58% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Florence Township (12,929 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Florence Township, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 58% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Florence Township, NJ shows violent crime at 147 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 332.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 58% 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.
Small-count caution
Florence Township reported 19 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 12,929. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 30.6% of the 62 Part I offenses reported in Florence Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 23.5 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Florence Township's 147.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Maywood (146.6), Palmyra (146.5), Newton (146.2), Egg Harbor Township (146.2). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 103.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 147.0 in 2024 (+41.6%). The highest observed value was 147.0 in 2024 and the lowest 48.0 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
At 147.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Florence Township ranks 107 of 417 — above 310 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +115.6% 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.
Property counts dominate Florence 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 19 reported violent incidents in a population of 12,929. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Florence Township leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,309.
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Florence Township offense mix (2024)
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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 43 | 332.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 32 | 247.5 |
| Burglary | 6 | 46.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 38.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 19 | 147 |
| Aggravated Assault | 13 | 100.5 |
| Rape | 3 | 23.2 |
| Robbery | 3 | 23.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 12,527 | 103.8 | 351.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 12,508 | 48 | 399.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,747 | 54.9 | 117.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,878 | 93.2 | 380.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,929 | 147 | 332.6 |
Florence Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Florence Township's 62 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Florence Township in population. Their populations run from 12,737 to 13,331, against 12,929 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Florence Township sits at 147/100K violent (grade A); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Florence Township at 147/100K violent and 332.6/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
147/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
332.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Florence Township reported 19 violent crimes and 43 property crimes, for a total of 62 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Florence Township's violent crime rate increased by 57.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.6%.
The most common crime type in Florence Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.6% of all reported crimes (32 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Florence 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Florence Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Florence Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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