Monroe Township, Gloucester County, NJ has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 124 per 100,000, 65% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Monroe Township, Gloucester County, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
Monroe Township, Gloucester County (38,785 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Monroe Township, Gloucester County, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 65% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Monroe Township, Gloucester County, NJ shows violent crime at 123.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,010.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 65% 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.
A safety grade
123.8/100K violent
1010.7/100K property
-65% vs U.S.
The verdict
Monroe Township, Gloucester County earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 65% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
A
PlainCrime safety grade
-65%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
64th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
1,010.7
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Monroe Township, Gloucester County, NJ
Comparable rate records
Monroe Township, Gloucester County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Monroe Township, Gloucester County's 123.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Collingswood (123.9), Bloomfield (123.3), East Newark (123.1), Edgewater Park Township (122.2). 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
Monroe Township, Gloucester County sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 123.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Monroe Township, Gloucester County ranks 135 of 417 — above 282 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +81.6% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 69.4% of reported property offenses in Monroe Township, Gloucester County, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (78) and motor vehicle theft (42). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 10.9% of the 440 Part I offenses reported in Monroe Township, Gloucester County for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 3.8 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 Monroe Township, Gloucester County'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.
Property offenses lead Monroe Township, Gloucester County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
392
1010.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
272
701.3
-
Burglary
78
201.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
42
108.3
-
Arson
2
5.2
-
Violent Crime
48
123.8
352
Aggravated Assault
38
98
-
Rape
6
15.5
-
Robbery
4
10.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
How Monroe Township, Gloucester County sits among NJ peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Monroe Township, Gloucester County in population. Their populations run from 37,910 to 40,970, against 38,785 here. Or use our
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These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Monroe Township, Gloucester County's 123.8/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
What is the crime rate in Monroe Township, Gloucester County, NJ? ▼
Monroe Township, Gloucester County has a violent crime rate of 123.8 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1010.7 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Monroe Township, Gloucester County, NJ safe? ▼
Monroe Township, Gloucester County receives a safety grade of A (Safe), with a safety score of 79/100. The violent crime rate is 65% below the national average and 43% below the New Jersey average.
What is the population of Monroe Township, Gloucester County, NJ? ▼
The reporting population for Monroe Township, Gloucester County is 38,785 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Monroe Township, Gloucester County? ▼
In 2024, Monroe Township, Gloucester County reported 48 violent crimes and 392 property crimes, for a total of 440 reported offenses.
How do Monroe Township, Gloucester County's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Monroe Township, Gloucester County recorded about one reported offense per 88 residents and one reported violent offense per 808 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
What is the most common crime in Monroe Township, Gloucester County? ▼
The most common crime type in Monroe Township, Gloucester County is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.8% of all reported crimes (272 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Monroe Township, Gloucester County 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 Monroe Township, Gloucester County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Federal sources for this mid-size row
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Summary Reporting System + National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). FBI UCR Program
FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE), current-vintage UCR/NIBRS data source. FBI Crime Data Explorer
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), National Crime Victimization Survey, contextual statistics. Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau ACS, population denominators for rate calculations. U.S. Census Bureau ACS
CDC WONDER, injury and mortality reference for homicide rate context. CDC WONDER
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Monroe Township, Gloucester County, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.