Ocean Township, Monmouth County, NJ has a C safety grade (52/100) with a violent crime rate of 187 per 100,000, 47% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Ocean Township, Monmouth County, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Ocean Township, Monmouth County (27,835 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Ocean Township, Monmouth County, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 47% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ocean Township, Monmouth County, NJ shows violent crime at 186.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,395 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 47% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
186.8/100K violent
3395/100K property
-47% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Ocean Township, Monmouth County, NJ
Comparable rate records
Ocean Township, Monmouth County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ocean Township, Monmouth County's 186.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Woodstown (187.0), Hoboken (188.5), Hamilton Township, Mercer County (184.0), Keyport (183.8). 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
Ocean Township, Monmouth County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 186.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ocean Township, Monmouth County ranks 75 of 417 — above 342 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +174.1% 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 counts dominate Ocean Township, Monmouth 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.
Ocean Township, Monmouth County's 2024 municipal footprint
Ocean Township, Monmouth County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 997 offenses; mix index 7,152).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Ocean Township, Monmouth County 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.
Property offenses lead Ocean Township, Monmouth County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
vs US avg
Property Crime
945
3395
1395.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
838
3010.6
-
-
Burglary
85
305.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
22
79
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
52
186.8
215.7
352
Aggravated Assault
28
100.6
-
-
Rape
12
43.1
-
-
Robbery
8
28.7
-
-
Murder
4
14.4
-
-
How Ocean Township, Monmouth County sits among NJ peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Ocean Township, Monmouth County: 187 violent, 3395 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Neptune Township: 290 violent, 3261 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Millville: 454 violent, 3906 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Rockaway Township: 37 violent, 938 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Randolph Township: 4 violent, 291 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Hamilton Township, Atlantic County: 116 violent, 2429 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Pemberton Township: 296 violent, 928 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Ridgewood: 45 violent, 584 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Bergenfield: 49 violent, 232 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Ocean Township, Monmouth County in population. Their populations run from 26,864 to 28,879, against 27,835 here. Or use our
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Ocean Township, Monmouth County's closest NJ violent-rate matches
Ocean Township, Monmouth County sits at 186.8/100K violent (grade C); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Out-of-state peers for Ocean Township, Monmouth County
Ocean Township, Monmouth County at 186.8/100K violent and 3,395/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
Ocean Township, Monmouth County violent rate vs peers
More about Ocean Township, Monmouth County's 2024 record
How many crimes were reported in Ocean Township, Monmouth County?
In 2024, Ocean Township, Monmouth County reported 52 violent crimes and 945 property crimes, for a total of 997 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Ocean Township, Monmouth County?
The most common crime type in Ocean Township, Monmouth County is larceny-theft, accounting for 84.1% of all reported crimes (838 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Ocean Township, Monmouth 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 Ocean Township, Monmouth 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 Ocean Township, Monmouth County, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.