Middle Township, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 25% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Middle Township, NJ shows violent crime at 263.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,926.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% below 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
263.1/100K violent
1926.1/100K property
-25% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Middle Township, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Middle Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 263.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Middle Township ranks 43 of 417 — above 374 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +286.1% 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
Middle Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Middle Township's 263.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Morristown (264.5), Westampton Township (260.2), Eatontown (267.3), Mount Holly Township (254.6). 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 193.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 263.1 in 2024 (+36.0%). The highest observed value was 388.0 in 2021 and the lowest 193.4 in 2020. 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 12.0% of the 441 Part I offenses reported in Middle Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 4.9 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 Middle 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.
Middle Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Middle Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 441 offenses; mix index 5,822).
Violent offenses are only 12% 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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-25.6%
353.7 → 263.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
+21.9%
1579.5 → 1926.1/100K
Property offenses lead Middle Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
388
1926.1
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
331
1643.2
-
Burglary
40
198.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
17
84.4
-
Arson
3
14.9
-
Violent Crime
53
263.1
215.7
Aggravated Assault
41
203.5
-
Rape
8
39.7
-
Robbery
4
19.9
-
Murder
0
0
-
Middle Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Middle Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose 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
Middle Township: 263 violent, 1926 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Maple Shade Township: 353 violent, 2186 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)
Middle Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Middle Township NIBRS-participating
Middle Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Middle Township's 441 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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
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Middle Township at 263.1/100K violent and 1,926.1/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Middle Township reported 53 violent crimes and 388 property crimes, for a total of 441 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Middle Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Middle Township's violent crime rate decreased by 25.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 21.9%.
What is the most common crime in Middle Township?
The most common crime type in Middle Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.1% of all reported crimes (331 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Middle 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 Middle Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.