Pemberton Township, NJ has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 296 per 100,000, 16% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Pemberton Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
Pemberton Township (27,062 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Pemberton Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 16% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pemberton Township, NJ shows violent crime at 295.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 927.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 16% 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.
B safety grade
295.6/100K violent
927.5/100K property
-16% vs U.S.
The verdict
Pemberton Township earns a B safety grade: violent crime runs 16% below the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
B
PlainCrime safety grade
-16%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
30th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
927.5
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pemberton Township, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Pemberton Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 295.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pemberton Township ranks 35 of 417 — above 382 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +333.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
Pemberton Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pemberton Township's 295.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Wildwood Crest (294.9), West New York (296.5), Ocean Gate (291.8), Neptune Township (289.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 24.2% of the 331 Part I offenses reported in Pemberton Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 17.0 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 227.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 295.6 in 2024 (+30.2%). The highest observed value was 444.7 in 2022 and the lowest 227.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Pemberton 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-29.3%
418.3 → 295.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-32.7%
1377.2 → 927.5/100K
Property offenses lead Pemberton Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
251
927.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
199
735.3
-
Burglary
37
136.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
15
55.4
-
Arson
7
25.9
-
Violent Crime
80
295.6
352
Aggravated Assault
66
243.9
-
Rape
7
25.9
-
Robbery
7
25.9
-
Murder
0
0
-
Pemberton Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Pemberton Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
927.5/100K↓32.7%vs 2023
Pemberton Township violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
295.6/100K↓29.3%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
26,875
227
1417.7
442
2021
Insufficient reporting
26,829
-
-
-
2022
Comparable
26,759
444.7
1281.8
462
2023
Comparable
27,012
418.3
1377.2
485
2024
Comparable
27,062
295.6
927.5
331
How Pemberton Township sits among NJ peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Pemberton Township Police Department NIBRS-participating
Pemberton Township's crime figures on this page originate from Pemberton Township Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Pemberton Township in population. Their populations run from 26,547 to 27,340, against 27,062 here. Or use our
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These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Pemberton Township's 295.6/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
What is the crime rate in Pemberton Township, NJ? ▼
Pemberton Township has a violent crime rate of 295.6 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 927.5 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Pemberton Township, NJ safe? ▼
Pemberton Township receives a safety grade of B (Above Average), with a safety score of 62/100. The violent crime rate is 16% below the national average and 37% above the New Jersey average.
What is the population of Pemberton Township, NJ? ▼
The reporting population for Pemberton Township is 27,062 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Pemberton Township? ▼
In 2024, Pemberton Township reported 80 violent crimes and 251 property crimes, for a total of 331 reported offenses.
How do Pemberton Township's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Pemberton Township recorded about one reported offense per 82 residents and one reported violent offense per 338 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Pemberton Township? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Pemberton Township's violent crime rate decreased by 29.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 32.7%.
What is the most common crime in Pemberton Township? ▼
The most common crime type in Pemberton Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.1% of all reported crimes (199 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Pemberton Township 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pemberton Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.