Hopewell Township, NJ has a A safety grade (86/100) with a violent crime rate of 68 per 100,000, 81% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hopewell Township (17,740 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
Hopewell Township, NJ is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 81% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hopewell Township, NJ shows violent crime at 67.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 806.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 81% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 22.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 67.6 in 2024 (+198.3%). The highest observed value was 80.2 in 2023 and the lowest 22.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Hopewell Township reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 17,740. 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 Hopewell Township's 67.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gloucester Township (67.9), Old Bridge Township (68.4), Caldwell (66.8), Pennington (68.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 67.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hopewell Township ranks 211 of 417 — above 206 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -1.2% 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 Hopewell 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 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 17,740. 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.
Hopewell Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 155 offenses; mix index 6,079).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Hopewell 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 | 143 | 806.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 118 | 665.2 |
| Burglary | 24 | 135.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 5.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 12 | 67.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 56.4 |
| Rape | 2 | 11.3 |
| 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 · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 17,641 | 22.7 | 430.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 18,348 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 17,339 | 51.9 | 576.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 17,453 | 80.2 | 630.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 17,740 | 67.6 | 806.1 |
Hopewell Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hopewell Township's 155 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 Hopewell Township in population. Their populations run from 17,125 to 18,437, against 17,740 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hopewell Township sits at 67.6/100K violent (grade A); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hopewell Township at 67.6/100K violent and 806.1/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
67.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
806.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Hopewell Township reported 12 violent crimes and 143 property crimes, for a total of 155 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hopewell Township's violent crime rate decreased by 15.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 27.9%.
The most common crime type in Hopewell Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.1% of all reported crimes (118 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hopewell 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 Hopewell Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hopewell Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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