Millville, NJ has a D safety grade (25/100) with a violent crime rate of 454 per 100,000, 29% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Millville (27,340 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 2026-09-05
Millville, NJ is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
Position in the state cohort
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
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
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 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.
Across 42 Census sq mi, Millville logged 25.4 property and 3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Millville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 1,192 offenses; mix index 5,657).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Millville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (42 sq mi); 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 | 1,068 | 3906.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 881 | 3222.4 |
| Burglary | 135 | 493.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 52 | 190.2 |
| Arson | 4 | 14.6 |
| Violent Crime | 124 | 453.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 73 | 267 |
| Robbery | 34 | 124.4 |
| Rape | 13 | 47.5 |
| Murder | 4 | 14.6 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 27,272 | 634.4 | 3413.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 26,882 | 390.6 | 2592.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 27,550 | 504.5 | 3865.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 27,260 | 553.9 | 4394.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 27,340 | 453.5 | 3906.4 |
Millville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Millville's 1,192 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.
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 side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Millville sits at 453.5/100K violent (grade D); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Millville at 453.5/100K violent and 3,906.4/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
453.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,906.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-18.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Millville reported 124 violent crimes and 1,068 property crimes, for a total of 1,192 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Millville's violent crime rate decreased by 18.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.1%.
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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Millville's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
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.
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