Haddon Township, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 50% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Haddon Township, NJ shows violent crime at 177 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,502.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 50% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
177/100K violent
3502.6/100K property
-50% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Haddon Township, NJ
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Haddon Township reported 28 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 15,817. 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
Haddon Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Haddon Township's 177.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Keansburg (176.8), Edison Township (175.1), Cherry Hill Township (173.9), Rahway (180.3). 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
Haddon Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 177.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Haddon Township ranks 81 of 417 — above 336 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +159.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 199.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 177.0 in 2024 (-11.4%). The highest observed value was 201.8 in 2022 and the lowest 71.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Haddon 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.
Based on 28 reported violent incidents in a population of 15,817. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Haddon Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Haddon Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 582 offenses; mix index 6,114).
Violent offenses are only 5% 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
+148.6%
71.2 → 177/100K
Property Crime Rate
+7.6%
3254.2 → 3502.6/100K
Property offenses lead Haddon Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
vs US avg
Property Crime
554
3502.6
1395.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
447
2826.1
-
-
Burglary
77
486.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
30
189.7
-
-
Arson
1
6.3
-
-
Violent Crime
28
177
215.7
352
Aggravated Assault
20
126.4
-
-
Robbery
8
50.6
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Rape
0
0
-
-
Haddon Township 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 Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose 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 Township: 177 violent, 3503 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Mantua Township: 63 violent, 2000 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Clark Township: 95 violent, 2526 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Pequannock Township: 6 violent, 564 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Robbinsville Township: 32 violent, 1111 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Tenafly: 7 violent, 466 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
South River: 49 violent, 99 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Phillipsburg: 156 violent, 1777 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Readington Township: 25 violent, 442 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Haddon Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Haddon Township NIBRS-participating
Haddon Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Haddon Township's 582 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Haddon Township in population. Their populations run from 15,363 to 16,307, against 15,817 here. Or use our
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Haddon Township at 177/100K violent and 3,502.6/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Haddon Township reported 28 violent crimes and 554 property crimes, for a total of 582 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Haddon Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Haddon Township's violent crime rate increased by 148.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.6%.
What is the most common crime in Haddon Township?
The most common crime type in Haddon Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.8% of all reported crimes (447 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Haddon 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Haddon Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.