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 · mid-size city
Hillside Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
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 is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
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.
Hillside Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Hillside Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 753 offenses; mix index 4,841).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
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
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Hillside Township: 197 violent, 3172 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Millburn Township: 5 violent, 2275 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Little Egg Harbor Township: 50 violent, 1030 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Lindenwold: 401 violent, 2114 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Lyndhurst Township: 62 violent, 1084 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Summit: 57 violent, 730 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Roselle: 194 violent, 1117 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Vernon Township: 4 violent, 171 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Lower Township: 156 violent, 719 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Hillside Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Hillside Township NIBRS-participating
Hillside Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hillside Township's 753 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.
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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Hillside Township at 196.9/100K violent and 3,172.1/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
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.
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.