Paramus, NJ has a B safety grade (67/100) with a violent crime rate of 30 per 100,000, 92% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Paramus (26,745 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Paramus, NJ is among the safest cities in the country, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 92% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Paramus, NJ shows violent crime at 29.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,898.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 92% 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.
Small-count caution
Paramus reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 26,745. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 87.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 29.9 in 2024 (-65.9%). The highest observed value was 87.7 in 2020 and the lowest 25.8 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 Paramus's 29.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Franklin Township, Hunterdon County (30.3), Haworth (29.5), Pohatcong Township (30.4), Springfield Township, Burlington County (30.7). 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 29.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Paramus ranks 303 of 417 — above 114 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -56.3% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 0.6% of the 1,318 Part I offenses reported in Paramus for 2024, against a median of 7.2% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 6.6 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 93.0% of reported property offenses in Paramus, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (55) and motor vehicle theft (37). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Paramus'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 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 26,745. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 10.4 Census sq mi, Paramus logged 125.4 property and 0.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Paramus's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (92% of 1,318 offenses; mix index 8,566).
Violent offenses are only 1% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Paramus offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.4 sq mi); 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 | 1,310 | 4898.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,218 | 4554.1 |
| Burglary | 55 | 205.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 37 | 138.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 8 | 29.9 |
| Robbery | 3 | 11.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 11.2 |
| Murder | 2 | 7.5 |
| Rape | 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 | 26,222 | 87.7 | 1735.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 27,132 | 25.8 | 1028.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 26,242 | 38.1 | 4172.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 26,333 | 26.6 | 3121.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 26,745 | 29.9 | 4898.1 |
Paramus Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Paramus's 1,318 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 Paramus in population. Their populations run from 26,296 to 27,294, against 26,745 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Paramus sits at 29.9/100K violent (grade B); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Paramus at 29.9/100K violent and 4,898.1/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
29.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,898.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Paramus reported 8 violent crimes and 1,310 property crimes, for a total of 1,318 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Paramus's violent crime rate increased by 12.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 56.9%.
The most common crime type in Paramus is larceny-theft, accounting for 92.4% of all reported crimes (1,218 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Paramus 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 Paramus's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Paramus, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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