Freehold Township, NJ has a B safety grade (71/100) with a violent crime rate of 157 per 100,000, 55% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Freehold Township (35,576 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
Freehold Township, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 55% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Freehold Township, NJ shows violent crime at 157.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,509.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 55% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 72.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 157.4 in 2024 (+116.9%). The highest observed value was 157.4 in 2024 and the lowest 44.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Freehold Township's 157.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lavallette (157.5), Spotswood (157.8), Phillipsburg (156.2), Aberdeen Township (156.2). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 157.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Freehold Township ranks 93 of 417 — above 324 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +131.0% 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 92.6% of reported property offenses in Freehold Township, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (20). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Freehold 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.
Freehold Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 593 offenses; mix index 7,114).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Freehold 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 | 537 | 1509.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 497 | 1397 |
| Burglary | 20 | 56.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 20 | 56.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 56 | 157.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 48 | 134.9 |
| Robbery | 5 | 14.1 |
| Rape | 3 | 8.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 34,456 | 72.6 | 1239.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 34,533 | 60.8 | 1077.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 35,791 | 86.6 | 1536.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 35,666 | 44.9 | 644.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 35,576 | 157.4 | 1509.4 |
Freehold Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Freehold Township's 593 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 Freehold Township in population. Their populations run from 33,113 to 38,189, against 35,576 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Freehold Township sits at 157.4/100K violent (grade B); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Freehold Township at 157.4/100K violent and 1,509.4/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
157.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,509.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Freehold Township reported 56 violent crimes and 537 property crimes, for a total of 593 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Freehold Township's violent crime rate increased by 250.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 134.1%.
The most common crime type in Freehold Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 83.8% of all reported crimes (497 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Freehold 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 Freehold Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Freehold Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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