Hillside Township, NJ has a C safety grade (53/100) with a violent crime rate of 197 per 100,000, 44% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Hillside Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
Hillside Township (22,351 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Hillside Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 44% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hillside Township, NJ shows violent crime at 196.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,172.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% 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
196.9/100K violent
3172.1/100K property
-44% vs U.S.
The verdict
Hillside Township earns a C safety grade: violent crime runs 44% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
C
PlainCrime safety grade
-44%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
46th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
3,172.1
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hillside Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
Hillside Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hillside Township's 196.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Absecon (197.0), Mount Laurel Township (195.8), Garfield (199.2), Eastampton Township (199.3). 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
Hillside Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 196.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hillside Township ranks 70 of 417 — above 347 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +188.9% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 281.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 196.9 in 2024 (-30.2%). The highest observed value was 281.9 in 2020 and the lowest 196.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 69.7% of reported property offenses in Hillside Township, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (51) and motor vehicle theft (164). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Hillside 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-18.4%
241.4 → 196.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
+5.5%
3006.1 → 3172.1/100K
Property offenses lead Hillside Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
vs US avg
Property Crime
709
3172.1
1395.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
494
2210.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
164
733.7
-
-
Burglary
51
228.2
-
-
Arson
4
17.9
-
-
Violent Crime
44
196.9
215.7
352
Aggravated Assault
27
120.8
-
-
Robbery
13
58.2
-
-
Rape
4
17.9
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Hillside Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Hillside Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
3,172.1/100K↑5.5%vs 2023
Hillside Township violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
196.9/100K↓18.4%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
21,995
281.9
2432.4
597
2021
Comparable
22,799
236.9
2087.8
530
2022
Comparable
22,026
240.6
2887.5
689
2023
Comparable
21,955
241.4
3006.1
713
2024
Comparable
22,351
196.9
3172.1
753
How Hillside Township sits among NJ peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Hillside Township Police Department NIBRS-participating
Hillside Township's crime figures on this page originate from Hillside Township Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Hillside Township in population. Their populations run from 21,848 to 22,851, against 22,351 here. Or use our
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These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Hillside Township's 196.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
What is the crime rate in Hillside Township, NJ? ▼
Hillside Township has a violent crime rate of 196.9 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 3172.1 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Hillside Township, NJ safe? ▼
Hillside Township receives a safety grade of C (Average), with a safety score of 53/100. The violent crime rate is 44% below the national average and 9% below the New Jersey average.
What is the population of Hillside Township, NJ? ▼
The reporting population for Hillside Township is 22,351 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Hillside Township? ▼
In 2024, Hillside Township reported 44 violent crimes and 709 property crimes, for a total of 753 reported offenses.
How do Hillside Township's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Hillside Township recorded about one reported offense per 30 residents and one reported violent offense per 508 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hillside Township? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Hillside Township's violent crime rate decreased by 18.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.5%.
What is the most common crime in Hillside Township? ▼
The most common crime type in Hillside Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.6% of all reported crimes (494 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hillside 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 Hillside Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.