Keyport, NJ has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 184 per 100,000, 48% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Keyport is a small municipal reporter (7,072 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NJ and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Keyport, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 48% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Keyport, NJ shows violent crime at 183.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,597.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 48% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Keyport reported 13 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 7,072. 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 Keyport's 183.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hamilton Township, Mercer County (184.0), Egg Harbor City (182.4), Netcong (181.6), Ocean Township, Monmouth County (186.8). 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 183.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Keyport ranks 77 of 417 — above 340 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +169.7% 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
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 129.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 183.8 in 2024 (+42.0%). The highest observed value was 183.8 in 2024 and the lowest 83.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 10.3% of the 126 Part I offenses reported in Keyport for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 3.2 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.
Property counts dominate Keyport'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 13 reported violent incidents in a population of 7,072. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 1.4 Census sq mi, Keyport logged 81.8 property and 9.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Keyport's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 126 offenses; mix index 6,193).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Keyport offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.4 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 | 113 | 1597.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 98 | 1385.7 |
| Burglary | 11 | 155.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 56.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 13 | 183.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 9 | 127.3 |
| Robbery | 3 | 42.4 |
| Murder | 1 | 14.1 |
| Rape | 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 | 6,951 | 129.5 | 1122.1 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 6,925 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,205 | 166.6 | 1082.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,151 | 83.9 | 1664.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,072 | 183.8 | 1597.9 |
Keyport Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Keyport's 126 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 Keyport in population. Their populations run from 6,926 to 7,227, against 7,072 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Keyport sits at 183.8/100K violent (grade B); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Keyport reported 13 violent crimes and 113 property crimes, for a total of 126 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Keyport's violent crime rate increased by 119.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4%.
The most common crime type in Keyport is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.8% of all reported crimes (98 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Keyport is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Keyport's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Keyport, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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