Glassboro, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 56% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Glassboro, NJ shows violent crime at 153.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,076.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% 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.
A safety grade
153.3/100K violent
1076.9/100K property
-56% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Glassboro, NJ
Comparable rate records
Glassboro's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Glassboro's 153.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Neptune City (153.1), North Plainfield (151.7), Secaucus (151.5), Long Beach Township (155.3). 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
Glassboro reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 153.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Glassboro ranks 99 of 417 — above 318 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +124.9% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 219.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 153.3 in 2024 (-30.3%). The highest observed value was 232.1 in 2022 and the lowest 153.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 12.5% of the 305 Part I offenses reported in Glassboro for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 5.3 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 Glassboro'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.
Glassboro's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9.3 Census sq mi, Glassboro logged 28.6 property and 4.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Glassboro's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 305 offenses; mix index 5,580).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.3 sq mi); 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
-7.4%
1162.9 → 1076.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-3.6%
159 → 153.3/100K
Property offenses lead Glassboro's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
267
1076.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
224
903.5
-
Burglary
24
96.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
76.6
-
Arson
1
4
-
Violent Crime
38
153.3
352
Aggravated Assault
27
108.9
-
Robbery
8
32.3
-
Rape
2
8.1
-
Murder
1
4
-
Glassboro Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Glassboro property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
West Milford Township: 93 violent, 344 property per 100,000 (grade A)
South Plainfield: 118 violent, 1931 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Raritan Township: 20 violent, 120 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Medford Township: 79 violent, 655 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Montgomery Township: 33 violent, 394 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Cranford Township: 12 violent, 813 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Morris Township: 25 violent, 562 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Glassboro Police Department
Reporting agency for Glassboro NIBRS-participating
Glassboro Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Glassboro's 305 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Glassboro in population. Their populations run from 24,191 to 25,176, against 24,793 here. Or use our
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Glassboro at 153.3/100K violent and 1,076.9/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Glassboro reported 38 violent crimes and 267 property crimes, for a total of 305 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Glassboro?
From 2023 to 2024, Glassboro's violent crime rate decreased by 3.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.4%.
What is the most common crime in Glassboro?
The most common crime type in Glassboro is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.4% of all reported crimes (224 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Glassboro 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 Glassboro, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.