Gibbsboro, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Gibbsboro, NJ shows violent crime at 218.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,268 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% 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
218.6/100K violent
1268/100K property
-38% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Gibbsboro, NJ
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 90.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 218.6 in 2024 (+141.6%). The highest observed value was 261.7 in 2021 and the lowest 45.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Gibbsboro reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,287. 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.
Comparable rate records
Gibbsboro's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Gibbsboro's 218.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are North Bergen Township (216.7), Elmwood Park (221.4), Dover (222.9), Woodbury (213.2). 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
Gibbsboro reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 218.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Gibbsboro ranks 61 of 417 — above 356 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +220.8% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 14.7% of the 34 Part I offenses reported in Gibbsboro for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 7.6 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 Gibbsboro'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 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,287. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Gibbsboro's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.2 Census sq mi, Gibbsboro logged 13.5 property and 2.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Gibbsboro's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 34 offenses; mix index 6,142).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+143.7%
89.7 → 218.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-29.3%
1794.5 → 1268/100K
Property offenses lead Gibbsboro's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
29
1268
1711
Larceny-Theft
26
1136.9
-
Burglary
3
131.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
0
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
5
218.6
352
Aggravated Assault
5
218.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Gibbsboro Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Gibbsboro 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
Gibbsboro: 219 violent, 1268 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Ogdensburg: 0 violent, 0 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Pine Beach: 133 violent, 88 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Englishtown: 86 violent, 727 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Alpha: 127 violent, 892 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Essex Fells: 0 violent, 1296 property per 100,000 (grade A)
East Newark: 123 violent, 1149 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Sea Isle City: 141 violent, 3384 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Oxford Township: 41 violent, 485 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Gibbsboro Police Department
Reporting agency for Gibbsboro Summary Reporting (SRS)
Gibbsboro Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Gibbsboro's 34 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Gibbsboro in population. Their populations run from 2,128 to 2,472, against 2,287 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Gibbsboro reported 5 violent crimes and 29 property crimes, for a total of 34 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Gibbsboro?
From 2023 to 2024, Gibbsboro's violent crime rate increased by 143.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 29.3%.
What is the most common crime in Gibbsboro?
The most common crime type in Gibbsboro is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.5% of all reported crimes (26 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Gibbsboro's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Gibbsboro, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.