Island Heights, NJ has a A+ safety grade (94/100) with a violent crime rate of 57 per 100,000, 84% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Island Heights's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,755). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NJ and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Island Heights, NJ is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 84% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Island Heights, NJ shows violent crime at 57 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 57 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 84% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 50.0% of the 2 Part I offenses reported in Island Heights for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 42.9 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.
Small-count caution
Island Heights reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,755. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 118.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 57.0 in 2024 (-52.0%). The highest observed value was 176.3 in 2022 and the lowest 57.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Island Heights's 57.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Rutherford (57.0), Summit (57.2), North Haledon (57.3), Mount Olive Township (56.6). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 100.0% of reported property offenses in Island Heights, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 57.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Island Heights ranks 236 of 417 — above 181 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -16.8% 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.
Island Heights's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,755. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.6 Census sq mi, Island Heights logged 1.6 property and 1.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Island Heights's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (50% of 2 offenses; mix index 5,000).
Violent offenses are 50% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Island Heights offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.6 sq mi); 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 | 1 | 57 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1 | 57 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 57 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 57 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,685 | 118.7 | 296.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,773 | 112.8 | 282 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,702 | 176.3 | 176.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,724 | 174 | 116 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,755 | 57 | 57 |
Island Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Island Heights's 2 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 Island Heights in population. Their populations run from 1,718 to 1,935, against 1,755 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Island Heights reported 1 violent crimes and 1 property crimes, for a total of 2 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Island Heights's violent crime rate decreased by 67.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 50.9%.
The most common crime type in Island Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (1 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Island Heights's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Island Heights's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Island Heights, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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