Gloucester Township, NJ has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 68 per 100,000, 81% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Gloucester Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
At 67,786 residents, Gloucester Township is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NJ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Gloucester Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 81% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Gloucester Township, NJ shows violent crime at 67.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,146.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 81% 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
67.9/100K violent
1146.3/100K property
-81% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Gloucester Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
Gloucester Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Gloucester Township's 67.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hopewell Township (67.6), Old Bridge Township (68.4), Pennington (68.6), Caldwell (66.8). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 84.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 67.9 in 2024 (-19.9%). The highest observed value was 127.6 in 2022 and the lowest 67.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Gloucester Township sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 67.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Gloucester Township ranks 210 of 417 — above 207 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -0.9% against the cohort median of 68.5. 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 Gloucester 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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Gloucester Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Gloucester Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 823 offenses; mix index 6,375).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-26.3%
92.1 → 67.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
-2%
1169.8 → 1146.3/100K
Property offenses lead Gloucester Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
777
1146.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
649
957.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
83
122.4
-
Burglary
45
66.4
-
Arson
1
1.5
-
Violent Crime
46
67.9
352
Aggravated Assault
41
60.5
-
Murder
2
3
-
Rape
2
3
-
Robbery
1
1.5
-
Gloucester Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Gloucester Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Gloucester Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Gloucester Township NIBRS-participating
Gloucester Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Gloucester Township's 823 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 Gloucester Township in population. Their populations run from 62,326 to 72,435, against 67,786 here. Or use our
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Gloucester Township at 67.9/100K violent and 1,146.3/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Gloucester Township?
In 2024, Gloucester Township reported 46 violent crimes and 777 property crimes, for a total of 823 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Gloucester Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Gloucester Township's violent crime rate decreased by 26.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2%.
What is the most common crime in Gloucester Township?
The most common crime type in Gloucester Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.9% of all reported crimes (649 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Gloucester Township's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Gloucester Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.