Oxford Township, NJ has a A+ safety grade (92/100) with a violent crime rate of 41 per 100,000, 88% below the national average.
Oxford Township's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,472). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NJ and U.S. averages.
Oxford Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 88% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oxford Township, NJ shows violent crime at 40.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 485.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 88% 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.
The verdict
Oxford Township earns an A+ safety grade: violent crime runs 88% below the U.S. average, placing it among the safest cities in the country.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,472. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-count caution
Oxford Township reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,472. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oxford Township's 40.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Northvale (40.4), Park Ridge (40.6), Scotch Plains Township (40.3), Helmetta (40.3). 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 40.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oxford Township ranks 269 of 417 — above 148 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -40.9% against the cohort median of 68.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 66.7% of reported property offenses in Oxford Township, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (4) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Oxford 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.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,472. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 12 | 485.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 8 | 323.6 |
| Burglary | 4 | 161.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 40.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 40.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,412 | 0 | 456.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,417 | 41.4 | 289.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,456 | 0 | 203.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,467 | 40.5 | 486.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,472 | 40.5 | 485.4 |
Oxford Township's crime figures on this page originate from Oxford Township Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Oxford Township in population. Their populations run from 2,307 to 2,564, against 2,472 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 Oxford Township's 40.5/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Micro-municipal read: Oxford Township's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Oxford Township's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Oxford Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Oxford Township is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,472 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.