North Bergen Township, NJ has a B safety grade (72/100) with a violent crime rate of 217 per 100,000, 38% below the national average.
At 59,532 residents, North Bergen Township is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NJ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
North Bergen Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Bergen Township, NJ shows violent crime at 216.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 776.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% 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.
The verdict
North Bergen Township earns a B safety grade: violent crime runs 38% below the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 85.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 216.7 in 2024 (+152.4%). The highest observed value was 216.7 in 2024 and the lowest 85.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Bergen Township's 216.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gibbsboro (218.6), Woodbury (213.2), Elmwood Park (221.4), Sea Bright (211.1). 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 216.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Bergen Township ranks 62 of 417 — above 355 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +218.0% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.8% of the 591 Part I offenses reported in North Bergen Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 14.7 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 North Bergen 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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 462 | 776.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 372 | 624.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 65 | 109.2 |
| Burglary | 25 | 42 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 129 | 216.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 83 | 139.4 |
| Robbery | 29 | 48.7 |
| Rape | 15 | 25.2 |
| Murder | 2 | 3.4 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 60,567 | 85.9 | 503.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 62,275 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 58,378 | 137 | 647.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 59,147 | 123.4 | 825.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 59,532 | 216.7 | 776.1 |
North Bergen Township's crime figures on this page originate from North Bergen Township 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to North Bergen Township in population. Their populations run from 57,259 to 62,342, against 59,532 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to North Bergen Township's 216.7/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Large-city read: North Bergen Township's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how North Bergen Township's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Bergen Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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