Middletown Township, NJ has a A safety grade (88/100) with a violent crime rate of 60 per 100,000, 83% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 66,307 residents, Middletown Township is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NJ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Middletown Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 83% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Middletown Township, NJ shows violent crime at 60.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 639.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 83% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 24.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 60.3 in 2024 (+145.7%). The highest observed value was 60.3 in 2024 and the lowest 24.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Middletown Township's 60.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Flemington (61.1), Manchester Township (61.1), Hillsborough Township (61.5), Lyndhurst Township (61.7). 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 60.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Middletown Township ranks 226 of 417 — above 191 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -11.9% 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 counts dominate Middletown 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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Middletown Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 464 offenses; mix index 6,273).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Middletown 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 | 424 | 639.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 363 | 547.5 |
| Burglary | 46 | 69.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 15 | 22.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 40 | 60.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 30 | 45.2 |
| Robbery | 5 | 7.5 |
| Rape | 4 | 6 |
| Murder | 1 | 1.5 |
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 | 65,170 | 24.6 | 549.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 65,057 | 49.2 | 450.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 67,055 | 49.2 | 590.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 66,717 | 37.5 | 712 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 66,307 | 60.3 | 639.4 |
Middletown Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Middletown Township's 464 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 Middletown Township in population. Their populations run from 62,290 to 71,138, against 66,307 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Middletown Township sits at 60.3/100K violent (grade A); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Middletown Township at 60.3/100K violent and 639.4/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
60.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
639.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Middletown Township reported 40 violent crimes and 424 property crimes, for a total of 464 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Middletown Township's violent crime rate increased by 60.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.2%.
The most common crime type in Middletown Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.2% of all reported crimes (363 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Middletown Township's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Middletown Township's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Middletown Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Middletown Township is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (66,307 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.