Jackson Township, NJ has a A+ safety grade (92/100) with a violent crime rate of 40 per 100,000, 89% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 62,326 residents, Jackson Township is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NJ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Jackson Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 89% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jackson Township, NJ shows violent crime at 40.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 428.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 89% 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
Jackson Township reported 25 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 62,326. 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 Jackson Township's 40.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Green Brook Township (40.1), Helmetta (40.3), Scotch Plains Township (40.3), Edgewater (39.8). 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 40.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jackson Township ranks 273 of 417 — above 144 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -41.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 46.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 40.1 in 2024 (-13.7%). The highest observed value was 46.5 in 2020 and the lowest 26.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Jackson 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 25 reported violent incidents in a population of 62,326. 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 large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Jackson Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 292 offenses; mix index 5,851).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Jackson 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 | 267 | 428.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 220 | 353 |
| Burglary | 27 | 43.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 20 | 32.1 |
| Arson | 3 | 4.8 |
| Violent Crime | 25 | 40.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 18 | 28.9 |
| Rape | 5 | 8 |
| Murder | 1 | 1.6 |
| Robbery | 1 | 1.6 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 58,120 | 46.5 | 363 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 61,350 | 26.1 | 334.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 60,762 | 34.6 | 434.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 61,387 | 45.6 | 417 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 62,326 | 40.1 | 428.4 |
Jackson Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Jackson Township's 292 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 Jackson Township in population. Their populations run from 57,293 to 66,307, against 62,326 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Jackson Township sits at 40.1/100K violent (grade A+); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Jackson Township at 40.1/100K violent and 428.4/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
40.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
428.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Jackson Township reported 25 violent crimes and 267 property crimes, for a total of 292 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Jackson Township's violent crime rate decreased by 12.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.7%.
The most common crime type in Jackson Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.3% of all reported crimes (220 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Jackson Township's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Jackson Township's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Jackson 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. Jackson Township is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (62,326 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.