Manalapan Township, NJ has a A+ safety grade (91/100) with a violent crime rate of 35 per 100,000, 90% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Manalapan Township (40,430 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 2026-08-24
Manalapan Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 90% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Manalapan Township, NJ shows violent crime at 34.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 648 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 90% 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
Manalapan Township reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 40,430. 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 Manalapan Township's 34.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ringwood (34.4), Jamesburg (34.2), Roselle Park (35.2), Norwood (34.0). 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 34.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Manalapan Township ranks 287 of 417 — above 130 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -49.4% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 69.1% of reported property offenses in Manalapan Township, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (67) and motor vehicle theft (14). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 30.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 34.6 in 2024 (+13.6%). The highest observed value was 56.1 in 2021 and the lowest 24.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Manalapan 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 14 reported violent incidents in a population of 40,430. 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.
Manalapan Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 276 offenses; mix index 4,941).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Manalapan 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 | 262 | 648 |
| Larceny-Theft | 181 | 447.7 |
| Burglary | 67 | 165.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 14 | 34.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 14 | 34.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 14 | 34.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 39,353 | 30.5 | 487.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 39,240 | 56.1 | 356.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 40,897 | 24.5 | 550.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 40,618 | 32 | 721.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 40,430 | 34.6 | 648 |
Manalapan Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Manalapan Township's 276 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Manalapan Township in population. Their populations run from 38,189 to 42,771, against 40,430 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Manalapan Township sits at 34.6/100K violent (grade A+); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Manalapan Township at 34.6/100K violent and 648/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
34.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
648/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Manalapan Township reported 14 violent crimes and 262 property crimes, for a total of 276 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Manalapan Township's violent crime rate increased by 8.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.2%.
The most common crime type in Manalapan Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.6% of all reported crimes (181 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Manalapan Township 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 Manalapan Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Manalapan Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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