Lawrence Township, Mercer County, NJ has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 28 per 100,000, 92% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Lawrence Township, Mercer County (32,040 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
Lawrence Township, Mercer County, NJ is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 92% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lawrence Township, Mercer County, NJ shows violent crime at 28.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,829 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 92% 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
Lawrence Township, Mercer County reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 32,040. 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 Lawrence Township, Mercer County's 28.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Barrington (27.7), Wood-Ridge (28.7), River Vale Township (28.8), Washington Township, Warren County (29.1). 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 28.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lawrence Township, Mercer County ranks 308 of 417 — above 109 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -59.0% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 1.5% of the 595 Part I offenses reported in Lawrence Township, Mercer County for 2024, against a median of 7.2% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 5.7 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 Lawrence Township, Mercer County'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 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 32,040. 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.
Lawrence Township, Mercer County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (85% of 595 offenses; mix index 7,351).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lawrence Township, Mercer County 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 | 586 | 1829 |
| Larceny-Theft | 507 | 1582.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 42 | 131.1 |
| Burglary | 37 | 115.5 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.1 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 28.1 |
| Rape | 6 | 18.7 |
| Robbery | 3 | 9.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Lawrence Township, Mercer County in population. Their populations run from 30,838 to 33,129, against 32,040 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lawrence Township, Mercer County sits at 28.1/100K violent (grade A); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lawrence Township, Mercer County at 28.1/100K violent and 1,829/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
28.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,829/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Lawrence Township, Mercer County reported 9 violent crimes and 586 property crimes, for a total of 595 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Lawrence Township, Mercer County is larceny-theft, accounting for 85.2% of all reported crimes (507 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lawrence Township, Mercer County 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 Lawrence Township, Mercer County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lawrence Township, Mercer County, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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