Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, NJ has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 52 per 100,000, 85% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
At 57,606 residents, Parsippany-Troy Hills 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.
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, NJ is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 85% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, NJ shows violent crime at 52.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 857.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 85% 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.
A safety grade
52.1/100K violent
857.5/100K property
-85% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Parsippany-Troy Hills Township's 52.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Westwood (52.4), Ridgefield (51.5), Wharton (53.1), Montvale (50.4). 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
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 52.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township ranks 244 of 417 — above 173 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -24.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 50.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 52.1 in 2024 (+2.8%). The highest observed value was 52.1 in 2024 and the lowest 22.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Parsippany-Troy Hills 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.
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 524 offenses; mix index 5,673).
Violent offenses are only 6% 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
+63.3%
31.9 → 52.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-8.2%
933.9 → 857.5/100K
Property offenses lead Parsippany-Troy Hills Township's 2024 record
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Parsippany-Troy Hills Township NIBRS-participating
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Parsippany-Troy Hills Township's 524 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.
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
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Out-of-state peers for Parsippany-Troy Hills Township
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township at 52.1/100K violent and 857.5/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township violent rate vs peers
More about Parsippany-Troy Hills Township's 2024 record
How many crimes were reported in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township?
In 2024, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township reported 30 violent crimes and 494 property crimes, for a total of 524 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township's violent crime rate increased by 63.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.2%.
What is the most common crime in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township?
The most common crime type in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.3% of all reported crimes (384 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Parsippany-Troy Hills 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.