Old Bridge Township, NJ has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 68 per 100,000, 81% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 70,143 residents, Old Bridge 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.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Old Bridge Township, NJ is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 81% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Old Bridge Township, NJ shows violent crime at 68.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 700 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 81% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 39.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 68.4 in 2024 (+72.5%). The highest observed value was 71.5 in 2023 and the lowest 38.1 in 2021. 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 Old Bridge Township's 68.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pennington (68.6), Gloucester Township (67.9), Hopewell Township (67.6), Blairstown Township (69.2). 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
At 68.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Old Bridge Township ranks 209 of 417 — above 208 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +0.3% against the cohort median of 68.2. 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 Old Bridge 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.
Old Bridge Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 539 offenses; mix index 6,126).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Old Bridge 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 | 491 | 700 |
| Larceny-Theft | 416 | 593.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 46 | 65.6 |
| Burglary | 29 | 41.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 48 | 68.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 44 | 62.7 |
| Robbery | 4 | 5.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 65,537 | 39.7 | 543.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 68,177 | 38.1 | 525.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 67,876 | 60.4 | 830.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 68,491 | 71.5 | 949 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 70,143 | 68.4 | 700 |
Old Bridge Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Old Bridge Township's 539 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 Old Bridge Township in population. Their populations run from 62,326 to 72,435, against 70,143 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Old Bridge Township sits at 68.4/100K violent (grade A); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Old Bridge Township at 68.4/100K violent and 700/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
68.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
700/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-4.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Old Bridge Township reported 48 violent crimes and 491 property crimes, for a total of 539 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Old Bridge Township's violent crime rate decreased by 4.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.2%.
The most common crime type in Old Bridge Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.2% of all reported crimes (416 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Old Bridge 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 Old Bridge Township's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Old Bridge Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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