Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, NJ has a B safety grade (67/100) with a violent crime rate of 116 per 100,000, 67% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
Hamilton Township, Atlantic County (28,528 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, NJ carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 67% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, NJ shows violent crime at 115.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,429.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 67% 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
115.7/100K violent
2429.2/100K property
-67% vs U.S.
The verdict
Hamilton Township, Atlantic County earns a B safety grade: violent crime runs 67% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
B
PlainCrime safety grade
-67%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
66th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,429.2
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, NJ
Comparable rate records
Hamilton Township, Atlantic County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hamilton Township, Atlantic County's 115.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ocean City (115.6), Saddle River (116.2), Winslow Township (117.2), Hanover Township (113.6). 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
Hamilton Township, Atlantic County sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 115.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hamilton Township, Atlantic County ranks 146 of 417 — above 271 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +69.7% 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.
Property counts dominate Hamilton Township, Atlantic County'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.
Property offenses lead Hamilton Township, Atlantic County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
693
2429.2
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
616
2159.3
-
Burglary
47
164.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
30
105.2
-
Arson
4
14
-
Violent Crime
33
115.7
215.7
Aggravated Assault
23
80.6
-
Rape
4
14
-
Murder
3
10.5
-
Robbery
3
10.5
-
How Hamilton Township, Atlantic County sits among NJ peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Hamilton Township, Atlantic County in population. Their populations run from 27,062 to 28,921, against 28,528 here. Or use our
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These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Hamilton Township, Atlantic County's 115.7/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
What is the crime rate in Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, NJ? ▼
Hamilton Township, Atlantic County has a violent crime rate of 115.7 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2429.2 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, NJ safe? ▼
Hamilton Township, Atlantic County receives a safety grade of B (Above Average), with a safety score of 67/100. The violent crime rate is 67% below the national average and 46% below the New Jersey average.
What is the population of Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, NJ? ▼
The reporting population for Hamilton Township, Atlantic County is 28,528 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Hamilton Township, Atlantic County? ▼
In 2024, Hamilton Township, Atlantic County reported 33 violent crimes and 693 property crimes, for a total of 726 reported offenses.
How do Hamilton Township, Atlantic County's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Hamilton Township, Atlantic County recorded about one reported offense per 39 residents and one reported violent offense per 864 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
What is the most common crime in Hamilton Township, Atlantic County? ▼
The most common crime type in Hamilton Township, Atlantic County is larceny-theft, accounting for 84.8% of all reported crimes (616 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hamilton Township, Atlantic County 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Hamilton Township, Atlantic County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Federal sources for this mid-size row
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Summary Reporting System + National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). FBI UCR Program
FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE), current-vintage UCR/NIBRS data source. FBI Crime Data Explorer
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), National Crime Victimization Survey, contextual statistics. Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau ACS, population denominators for rate calculations. U.S. Census Bureau ACS
CDC WONDER, injury and mortality reference for homicide rate context. CDC WONDER
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.