Harrison Township, NJ has a A safety grade (89/100) with a violent crime rate of 71 per 100,000, 80% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Harrison Township (14,161 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 2026-08-24
Harrison Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 80% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Harrison Township, NJ shows violent crime at 70.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 459 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 80% 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.
Small-count caution
Harrison Township reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 14,161. 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Harrison Township's 70.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Milltown (70.4), Marlboro Township (70.1), Riverdale (71.5), Blairstown Township (69.2). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 13.3% of the 75 Part I offenses reported in Harrison Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 6.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 60.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 70.6 in 2024 (+16.3%). The highest observed value was 100.8 in 2022 and the lowest 7.3 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
At 70.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Harrison Township ranks 204 of 417 — above 213 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +3.6% 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 Harrison 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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 14,161. 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.
Harrison Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 75 offenses; mix index 4,706).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Harrison Township offense mix (2024)
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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 65 | 459 |
| Larceny-Theft | 49 | 346 |
| Burglary | 13 | 91.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 21.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 70.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 56.5 |
| Rape | 2 | 14.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 13,178 | 60.7 | 629.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 13,772 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,886 | 100.8 | 489.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,907 | 43.1 | 424.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,161 | 70.6 | 459 |
Harrison Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Harrison Township's 75 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Harrison Township in population. Their populations run from 13,607 to 14,721, against 14,161 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Harrison Township sits at 70.6/100K violent (grade A); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Harrison Township at 70.6/100K violent and 459/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
70.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
459/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Harrison Township reported 10 violent crimes and 65 property crimes, for a total of 75 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Harrison Township's violent crime rate increased by 63.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 8.2%.
The most common crime type in Harrison Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.3% of all reported crimes (49 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Harrison 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Harrison Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Harrison Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Harrison Township is scored in the mid-size municipal band (14,161 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.