Harrison, NJ has a B safety grade (61/100) with a violent crime rate of 234 per 100,000, 33% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Harrison (21,337 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Harrison, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 33% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Harrison, NJ shows violent crime at 234.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,752.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 234.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Harrison ranks 54 of 417 — above 363 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +243.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Harrison's 234.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Clementon (230.9), Beverly (238.1), Englewood (230.2), Long Branch (241.6). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 191.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 234.3 in 2024 (+22.7%). The highest observed value was 304.3 in 2023 and the lowest 191.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 11.8% of the 424 Part I offenses reported in Harrison for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 4.6 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 Harrison'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.
Across 18.9 Census sq mi, Harrison logged 19.8 property and 2.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Harrison's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 424 offenses; mix index 4,770).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Harrison offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 374 | 1752.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 281 | 1317 |
| Burglary | 68 | 318.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 25 | 117.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.7 |
| Violent Crime | 50 | 234.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 37 | 173.4 |
| Robbery | 13 | 60.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 20,937 | 191 | 1380.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 22,252 | 238.2 | 1298.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 18,999 | 300 | 2079.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 20,043 | 304.3 | 2354.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,337 | 234.3 | 1752.8 |
Harrison Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Harrison's 424 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Harrison in population. Their populations run from 20,619 to 22,184, against 21,337 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Harrison sits at 234.3/100K violent (grade B); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Harrison at 234.3/100K violent and 1,752.8/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
234.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,752.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Harrison reported 50 violent crimes and 374 property crimes, for a total of 424 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Harrison's violent crime rate decreased by 23%, and the property crime rate decreased by 25.6%.
The most common crime type in Harrison is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.3% of all reported crimes (281 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Harrison 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 Harrison's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Harrison, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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