Hillsborough Township, NJ has a A+ safety grade (90/100) with a violent crime rate of 62 per 100,000, 83% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hillsborough Township (45,555 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
Hillsborough Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 83% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hillsborough Township, NJ shows violent crime at 61.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 390.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 83% 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
Hillsborough Township reported 28 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 45,555. 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 Hillsborough Township's 61.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lyndhurst Township (61.7), Mahwah Township (61.8), Verona (61.8), Manchester Township (61.1). 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 47.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 61.5 in 2024 (+30.1%). The highest observed value was 61.5 in 2024 and the lowest 16.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 13.6% of the 206 Part I offenses reported in Hillsborough Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 6.4 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 61.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hillsborough Township ranks 223 of 417 — above 194 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -10.3% 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.
Property counts dominate Hillsborough 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 45,555. 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.
Hillsborough Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 206 offenses; mix index 4,770).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Hillsborough 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 | 178 | 390.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 135 | 296.3 |
| Burglary | 35 | 76.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8 | 17.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 28 | 61.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 27 | 59.3 |
| Rape | 1 | 2.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 40,210 | 47.3 | 440.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 42,116 | 35.6 | 349 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 42,893 | 16.3 | 317.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 43,522 | 57.4 | 574.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 45,555 | 61.5 | 390.7 |
Hillsborough Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hillsborough Township's 206 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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 Hillsborough Township in population. Their populations run from 45,184 to 47,892, against 45,555 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hillsborough Township sits at 61.5/100K violent (grade A+); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hillsborough Township at 61.5/100K violent and 390.7/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
61.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
390.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+7.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Hillsborough Township reported 28 violent crimes and 178 property crimes, for a total of 206 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hillsborough Township's violent crime rate increased by 7.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 32%.
The most common crime type in Hillsborough Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.5% of all reported crimes (135 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hillsborough 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 Hillsborough Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hillsborough 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. Hillsborough Township is scored in the mid-size municipal band (45,555 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.