Lakewood Township, NJ has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 151 per 100,000, 57% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Lakewood Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
At 144,876 residents, Lakewood 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.
Lakewood Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 57% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lakewood Township, NJ shows violent crime at 150.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 584.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% 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.
A safety grade
150.5/100K violent
584.6/100K property
-57% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lakewood Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
Lakewood Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lakewood Township's 150.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Highland Park (150.7), Rochelle Park Township (150.8), Secaucus (151.5), North Plainfield (151.7). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 20.5% of the 1,065 Part I offenses reported in Lakewood Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 13.3 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.
Position in the state cohort
Lakewood Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 150.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lakewood Township ranks 105 of 417 — above 312 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +120.8% 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 121.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 150.5 in 2024 (+24.1%). The highest observed value was 157.2 in 2023 and the lowest 11.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lakewood 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.
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.
Lakewood Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Lakewood Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 1,065 offenses; mix index 4,412).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-10.5%
653.3 → 584.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-4.3%
157.2 → 150.5/100K
Property offenses lead Lakewood Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
847
584.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
673
464.5
-
Burglary
127
87.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
47
32.4
-
Arson
7
4.8
-
Violent Crime
218
150.5
352
Aggravated Assault
167
115.3
-
Robbery
27
18.6
-
Rape
22
15.2
-
Murder
2
1.4
-
Lakewood Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lakewood Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Lakewood Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Lakewood Township NIBRS-participating
Lakewood Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lakewood Township's 1,065 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.
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Lakewood Township in population. Their populations run from 79,950 to 158,903, against 144,876 here. Or use our
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Lakewood Township at 150.5/100K violent and 584.6/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Lakewood Township?
In 2024, Lakewood Township reported 218 violent crimes and 847 property crimes, for a total of 1,065 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Lakewood Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Lakewood Township's violent crime rate decreased by 4.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.5%.
What is the most common crime in Lakewood Township?
The most common crime type in Lakewood Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.2% of all reported crimes (673 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Lakewood 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lakewood Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.