Morris Township, NJ has a A+ safety grade (93/100) with a violent crime rate of 25 per 100,000, 93% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Morris Township (24,191 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
Morris Township, NJ is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 93% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Morris Township, NJ shows violent crime at 24.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 562.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 93% 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.
Small-count caution
Morris Township reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 24,191. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Morris Township's 24.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cranbury Township (24.6), Fairfield Township, Essex County (24.5), Readington Township (24.5), Hawthorne (25.1). 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 24.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Morris Township ranks 315 of 417 — above 102 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -63.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 36.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 24.8 in 2024 (-31.5%). The highest observed value was 64.4 in 2021 and the lowest 17.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 4.2% of the 142 Part I offenses reported in Morris Township for 2024, against a median of 7.2% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 3.0 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 Morris 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.
Based on 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 24,191. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Morris Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 142 offenses; mix index 6,106).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Morris 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 | 136 | 562.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 109 | 450.6 |
| Burglary | 18 | 74.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 37.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 6 | 24.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 20.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 4.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
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 | 22,100 | 36.2 | 529.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 23,286 | 64.4 | 459.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 23,455 | 51.2 | 571.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,485 | 17 | 319.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 24,191 | 24.8 | 562.2 |
Morris Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Morris Township's 142 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 Morris Township in population. Their populations run from 23,773 to 24,820, against 24,191 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Morris Township sits at 24.8/100K violent (grade A+); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Morris Township at 24.8/100K violent and 562.2/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
24.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
562.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Morris Township reported 6 violent crimes and 136 property crimes, for a total of 142 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Morris Township's violent crime rate increased by 45.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 76%.
The most common crime type in Morris Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.8% of all reported crimes (109 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Morris 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Morris Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Morris Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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