Haddon Heights, NJ is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Haddon Heights, NJ shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 494.7 per 100,000. 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
0/100K violent
494.7/100K property
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Haddon Heights, NJ
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Haddon Heights reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 7,682. 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 39.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024 (-100.0%). The highest observed value was 40.2 in 2022 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Haddon Heights reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Haddon Heights ranks 379 of 417 — above 0 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -100.0% 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.
Comparable rate records
Haddon Heights's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Haddon Heights's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Allendale (0.0), Allenhurst (0.0), Bay Head (0.0), Belvidere (0.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 60.5% of reported property offenses in Haddon Heights, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (13) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 0.0% of the 38 Part I offenses reported in Haddon Heights for 2024, against a median of 7.2% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 7.2 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 Haddon Heights'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 0 reported violent incidents in a population of 7,682. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Haddon Heights's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 1.6 Census sq mi, Haddon Heights logged 24.3 property and 0 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Haddon Heights's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 38 offenses; mix index 4,861).
Violent offenses are only 0% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.6 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
-100%
26.6 → 0/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.4%
546.1 → 494.7/100K
Property offenses lead Haddon Heights's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
38
494.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
23
299.4
-
Burglary
13
169.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
2
26
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
0
0
352
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Aggravated Assault
0
0
-
Haddon Heights Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Haddon Heights property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Haddon Heights: 0 violent, 495 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Bloomingdale: 156 violent, 350 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Berlin: 13 violent, 1283 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Fanwood: 13 violent, 732 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Brigantine: 106 violent, 753 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Wharton: 53 violent, 783 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Palmyra: 147 violent, 1918 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Chester Township: 0 violent, 165 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Green Brook Township: 40 violent, 601 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Haddon Heights Police Department
Reporting agency for Haddon Heights NIBRS-participating
Haddon Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Haddon Heights's 38 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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
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In 2024, Haddon Heights reported 0 violent crimes and 38 property crimes, for a total of 38 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Haddon Heights?
From 2023 to 2024, Haddon Heights's violent crime rate decreased by 100%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.4%.
What is the most common crime in Haddon Heights?
The most common crime type in Haddon Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.5% of all reported crimes (23 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Haddon Heights is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Haddon Heights, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.