Mount Laurel Township, NJ has a B safety grade (63/100) with a violent crime rate of 196 per 100,000, 44% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Mount Laurel Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Mount Laurel Township (46,978 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Mount Laurel Township, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 44% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Laurel Township, NJ shows violent crime at 195.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,045.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
195.8/100K violent
2045.6/100K property
-44% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mount Laurel Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
Mount Laurel Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mount Laurel Township's 195.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hillside Township (196.9), Absecon (197.0), Roselle (193.5), Garfield (199.2). 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
Mount Laurel Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 195.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Laurel Township ranks 71 of 417 — above 346 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +187.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 140.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 195.8 in 2024 (+39.0%). The highest observed value was 195.8 in 2024 and the lowest 140.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Mount Laurel 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Mount Laurel Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Mount Laurel Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 1,053 offenses; mix index 6,153).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+3.5%
189.2 → 195.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
+1.1%
2023.4 → 2045.6/100K
Property offenses lead Mount Laurel Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
961
2045.6
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
817
1739.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
79
168.2
-
Burglary
65
138.4
-
Arson
1
2.1
-
Violent Crime
92
195.8
215.7
Aggravated Assault
62
132
-
Robbery
16
34.1
-
Rape
14
29.8
-
Murder
0
0
-
Mount Laurel Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Mount Laurel Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Mount Laurel Township: 196 violent, 2046 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Bridgewater Township: 23 violent, 997 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Hackensack: 246 violent, 2025 property per 100,000 (grade C)
South Brunswick Township: 101 violent, 790 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Manchester Township: 61 violent, 451 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Berkeley Township: 132 violent, 592 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Egg Harbor Township: 146 violent, 1675 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Hillsborough Township: 62 violent, 391 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
West Orange: 140 violent, 1417 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Mount Laurel Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Mount Laurel Township NIBRS-participating
Mount Laurel Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mount Laurel Township's 1,053 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Mount Laurel Township in population. Their populations run from 45,555 to 48,638, against 46,978 here. Or use our
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Mount Laurel Township at 195.8/100K violent and 2,045.6/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Mount Laurel Township?
In 2024, Mount Laurel Township reported 92 violent crimes and 961 property crimes, for a total of 1,053 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mount Laurel Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Mount Laurel Township's violent crime rate increased by 3.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.1%.
What is the most common crime in Mount Laurel Township?
The most common crime type in Mount Laurel Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.6% of all reported crimes (817 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Mount Laurel 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mount Laurel Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.