North Brunswick Township, NJ has a B safety grade (74/100) with a violent crime rate of 137 per 100,000, 61% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
North Brunswick Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
North Brunswick Township (45,184 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
North Brunswick Township, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 61% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Brunswick Township, NJ shows violent crime at 137.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,403.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 61% 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
137.2/100K violent
1403.2/100K property
-61% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for North Brunswick Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
North Brunswick Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Brunswick Township's 137.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Atlantic Highlands (137.2), Brick Township (137.3), South Amboy (139.1), West Orange (139.8). 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
North Brunswick Township sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 137.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Brunswick Township ranks 119 of 417 — above 298 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +101.4% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 166.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 137.2 in 2024 (-17.7%). The highest observed value was 216.5 in 2022 and the lowest 112.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate North Brunswick 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.
North Brunswick Township's 2024 municipal footprint
North Brunswick Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 696 offenses; mix index 6,198).
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
-21.4%
174.5 → 137.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-14.1%
1634.3 → 1403.2/100K
Property offenses lead North Brunswick Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
634
1403.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
542
1199.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
54
119.5
-
Burglary
38
84.1
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
62
137.2
352
Aggravated Assault
42
93
-
Robbery
19
42.1
-
Rape
1
2.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
North Brunswick Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
North Brunswick Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
North Brunswick Township: 137 violent, 1403 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Hillsborough Township: 62 violent, 391 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Berkeley Township: 132 violent, 592 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Hackensack: 246 violent, 2025 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Bridgewater Township: 23 violent, 997 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Mount Laurel Township: 196 violent, 2046 property per 100,000 (grade B)
South Brunswick Township: 101 violent, 790 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Manchester Township: 61 violent, 451 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Teaneck Township: 96 violent, 797 property per 100,000 (grade A)
North Brunswick Township Police Department
Reporting agency for North Brunswick Township Summary Reporting (SRS)
North Brunswick Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Brunswick Township's 696 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to North Brunswick Township in population. Their populations run from 42,771 to 47,488, against 45,184 here. Or use our
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North Brunswick Township at 137.2/100K violent and 1,403.2/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in North Brunswick Township?
In 2024, North Brunswick Township reported 62 violent crimes and 634 property crimes, for a total of 696 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in North Brunswick Township?
From 2023 to 2024, North Brunswick Township's violent crime rate decreased by 21.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.1%.
What is the most common crime in North Brunswick Township?
The most common crime type in North Brunswick Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.9% of all reported crimes (542 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: North Brunswick 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 North Brunswick Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.