Maple Shade Township, NJ has a C safety grade (46/100) with a violent crime rate of 353 per 100,000, 0% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Maple Shade Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Maple Shade Township (20,132 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Maple Shade Township, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 0% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Maple Shade Township, NJ shows violent crime at 352.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,185.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 0% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
352.7/100K violent
2185.6/100K property
+0% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Maple Shade Township, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Maple Shade Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 352.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Maple Shade Township ranks 29 of 417 — above 388 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +417.5% 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
Maple Shade Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Maple Shade Township's 352.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Willingboro Township (347.7), Lawnside (342.7), North Wildwood (363.7), Burlington City (375.3). 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 260.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 352.7 in 2024 (+35.2%). The highest observed value was 384.3 in 2023 and the lowest 81.5 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 13.9% of the 511 Part I offenses reported in Maple Shade Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 6.8 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 Maple Shade 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Maple Shade Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Maple Shade Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 511 offenses; mix index 4,839).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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
+23.7%
1766.6 → 2185.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-8.2%
384.3 → 352.7/100K
Property offenses lead Maple Shade Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
440
2185.6
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
345
1713.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
48
238.4
-
Burglary
47
233.5
-
Arson
3
14.9
-
Violent Crime
71
352.7
215.7
Aggravated Assault
51
253.3
-
Rape
13
64.6
-
Robbery
7
34.8
-
Murder
0
0
-
Maple Shade 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.
Maple Shade 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Maple Shade Township: 353 violent, 2186 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Middle Township: 263 violent, 1926 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Point Pleasant: 75 violent, 439 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Hawthorne: 25 violent, 869 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Sparta Township: 39 violent, 574 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Palisades Park: 24 violent, 689 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Pleasantville: 403 violent, 1474 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Hazlet Township: 82 violent, 1350 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Rutherford: 57 violent, 804 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Maple Shade Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Maple Shade Township NIBRS-participating
Maple Shade Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Maple Shade Township's 511 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 Maple Shade Township in population. Their populations run from 19,285 to 20,663, against 20,132 here. Or use our
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Maple Shade Township at 352.7/100K violent and 2,185.6/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Maple Shade Township?
In 2024, Maple Shade Township reported 71 violent crimes and 440 property crimes, for a total of 511 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Maple Shade Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Maple Shade Township's violent crime rate decreased by 8.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 23.7%.
What is the most common crime in Maple Shade Township?
The most common crime type in Maple Shade Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.5% of all reported crimes (345 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Maple Shade 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Maple Shade Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.