Millville, NJ carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 29% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Millville, NJ shows violent crime at 453.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,906.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
453.5/100K violent
3906.4/100K property
+29% vs U.S.
The verdict
Millville earns a D safety grade: violent crime runs 29% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
D
PlainCrime safety grade
+29%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
17th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
3,906.4
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Millville, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Millville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 453.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Millville ranks 17 of 417 — above 400 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +565.6% 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
Millville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Millville's 453.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Orange City (454.2), Irvington (443.3), Vineland (437.2), Brooklawn (431.3). 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 634.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 453.5 in 2024 (-28.5%). The highest observed value was 634.4 in 2020 and the lowest 390.6 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 10.4% of the 1,192 Part I offenses reported in Millville for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 3.3 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 Millville'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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-18.1%
553.9 → 453.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-11.1%
4394.7 → 3906.4/100K
Property offenses lead Millville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,068
3906.4
1395.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
881
3222.4
-
-
Burglary
135
493.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
52
190.2
-
-
Arson
4
14.6
-
-
Violent Crime
124
453.5
215.7
352
Aggravated Assault
73
267
-
-
Robbery
34
124.4
-
-
Rape
13
47.5
-
-
Murder
4
14.6
-
-
Millville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Millville property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
3,906.4/100K↓11.1%vs 2023
Millville violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
453.5/100K↓18.1%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
27,272
634.4
3413.8
1,104
2021
Comparable
26,882
390.6
2592.8
802
2022
Comparable
27,550
504.5
3865.7
1,204
2023
Comparable
27,260
553.9
4394.7
1,349
2024
Comparable
27,340
453.5
3906.4
1,192
How Millville sits among NJ peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Millville Police Department NIBRS-participating
Millville's crime figures on this page originate from Millville Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Millville in population. Their populations run from 26,713 to 27,969, against 27,340 here. Or use our
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These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Millville's 453.5/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Millville has a violent crime rate of 453.5 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 3906.4 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Millville, NJ safe? ▼
Millville receives a safety grade of D (Below Average), with a safety score of 25/100. The violent crime rate is 29% above the national average and 110% above the New Jersey average.
What is the population of Millville, NJ? ▼
The reporting population for Millville is 27,340 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Millville? ▼
In 2024, Millville reported 124 violent crimes and 1,068 property crimes, for a total of 1,192 reported offenses.
How do Millville's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Millville recorded about one reported offense per 23 residents and one reported violent offense per 220 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Millville? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Millville's violent crime rate decreased by 18.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.1%.
What is the most common crime in Millville? ▼
The most common crime type in Millville is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.9% of all reported crimes (881 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Millville 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 Millville, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.