Freehold Borough, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 22% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Freehold Borough, NJ shows violent crime at 274.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,257.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 22% 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
274.1/100K violent
1257.8/100K property
-22% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Freehold Borough, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Freehold Borough reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 274.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Freehold Borough ranks 40 of 417 — above 377 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +302.3% 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
Freehold Borough's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Freehold Borough's 274.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Point Pleasant Beach (276.6), Eatontown (267.3), Morristown (264.5), Middle Township (263.1). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.9% of the 190 Part I offenses reported in Freehold Borough for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 10.8 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 Freehold Borough'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.
Freehold Borough's 2024 municipal footprint
Freehold Borough's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 190 offenses; mix index 4,808).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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 offenses lead Freehold Borough's 2024 record
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Freehold Borough: 274 violent, 1258 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Glen Rock: 16 violent, 616 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Hasbrouck Heights: 24 violent, 473 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
River Edge: 16 violent, 768 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Bordentown Township: 74 violent, 998 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Wallington: 75 violent, 1524 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Red Bank: 204 violent, 1162 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Pennsville Township: 78 violent, 2275 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Bellmawr: 58 violent, 1593 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Freehold Borough in population. Their populations run from 11,991 to 12,794, against 12,403 here. Or use our
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Freehold Borough at 274.1/100K violent and 1,257.8/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Freehold Borough?
In 2024, Freehold Borough reported 34 violent crimes and 156 property crimes, for a total of 190 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Freehold Borough?
The most common crime type in Freehold Borough is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.4% of all reported crimes (128 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Freehold Borough 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 Freehold Borough, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.