Long Branch, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 31% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Long Branch, NJ shows violent crime at 241.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,627.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 31% 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.
B safety grade
241.6/100K violent
1627.8/100K property
-31% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Long Branch, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Long Branch reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 241.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Long Branch ranks 52 of 417 — above 365 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +254.5% 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.
Comparable rate records
Long Branch's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Long Branch's 241.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Beverly (238.1), Somerdale (245.9), Hackensack (246.4), Riverside Township (247.6). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 304.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 241.6 in 2024 (-20.8%). The highest observed value was 304.9 in 2020 and the lowest 136.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 12.9% of the 619 Part I offenses reported in Long Branch for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 5.8 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 Long Branch'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Long Branch's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.1 Census sq mi, Long Branch logged 105.2 property and 15.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Long Branch's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 619 offenses; mix index 5,261).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.1 sq mi); 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
+21.5%
1340.2 → 1627.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.4%
240.6 → 241.6/100K
Property offenses lead Long Branch's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
539
1627.8
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
439
1325.8
-
Burglary
65
196.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
35
105.7
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
80
241.6
215.7
Aggravated Assault
56
169.1
-
Robbery
13
39.3
-
Rape
10
30.2
-
Murder
1
3
-
Long Branch Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Long Branch property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Long Branch: 242 violent, 1628 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Garfield: 199 violent, 1751 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Willingboro Township: 348 violent, 1298 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Lawrence Township, Mercer County: 28 violent, 1829 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Voorhees Township: 78 violent, 1586 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Orange City: 454 violent, 1750 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Livingston Township: 79 violent, 855 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Stafford Township: 41 violent, 770 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ewing Township: 251 violent, 2373 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Long Branch Police Department
Reporting agency for Long Branch Summary Reporting (SRS)
Long Branch Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Long Branch's 619 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Long Branch in population. Their populations run from 31,546 to 34,718, against 33,113 here. Or use our
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Long Branch at 241.6/100K violent and 1,627.8/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Long Branch reported 80 violent crimes and 539 property crimes, for a total of 619 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Long Branch?
From 2023 to 2024, Long Branch's violent crime rate increased by 0.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 21.5%.
What is the most common crime in Long Branch?
The most common crime type in Long Branch is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.9% of all reported crimes (439 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Long Branch 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Long Branch, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.