Pennsauken Township, NJ has a C safety grade (45/100) with a violent crime rate of 251 per 100,000, 29% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Pennsauken Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
Pennsauken Township (38,189 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Pennsauken Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 29% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pennsauken Township, NJ shows violent crime at 251.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,354.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
251.4/100K violent
4354.7/100K property
-29% vs U.S.
The verdict
Pennsauken Township earns a C safety grade: violent crime runs 29% below the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
C
PlainCrime safety grade
-29%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
37th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
4,354.7
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pennsauken Township, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Pennsauken Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 251.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pennsauken Township ranks 46 of 417 — above 371 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +268.9% 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
Pennsauken Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pennsauken Township's 251.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ewing Township (250.6), Belleville (249.6), Mount Holly Township (254.6), Riverside Township (247.6). 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 71.8% of reported property offenses in Pennsauken Township, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (225) and motor vehicle theft (244). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 266.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 251.4 in 2024 (-5.5%). The highest observed value was 367.0 in 2023 and the lowest 115.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Pennsauken 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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-31.5%
367 → 251.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-2.4%
4460.7 → 4354.7/100K
Property offenses lead Pennsauken Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,663
4354.7
1395.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,194
3126.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
244
638.9
-
-
Burglary
225
589.2
-
-
Arson
1
2.6
-
-
Violent Crime
96
251.4
215.7
352
Aggravated Assault
69
180.7
-
-
Robbery
27
70.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Rape
0
0
-
-
Pennsauken Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Pennsauken Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
4,354.7/100K↓2.4%vs 2023
Pennsauken Township violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
251.4/100K↓31.5%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
35,698
266.1
2594
1,021
2021
Comparable
37,212
115.6
1865
737
2022
Comparable
37,198
285
3481.4
1,401
2023
Comparable
37,326
367
4460.7
1,802
2024
Comparable
38,189
251.4
4354.7
1,759
How Pennsauken Township sits among NJ peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Pennsauken Township Police Department NIBRS-participating
Pennsauken Township's crime figures on this page originate from Pennsauken 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 Pennsauken Township in population. Their populations run from 36,579 to 40,656, against 38,189 here. Or use our
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These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Pennsauken Township's 251.4/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
What is the crime rate in Pennsauken Township, NJ? ▼
Pennsauken Township has a violent crime rate of 251.4 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 4354.7 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Pennsauken Township, NJ safe? ▼
Pennsauken Township receives a safety grade of C (Average), with a safety score of 45/100. The violent crime rate is 29% below the national average and 17% above the New Jersey average.
What is the population of Pennsauken Township, NJ? ▼
The reporting population for Pennsauken Township is 38,189 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Pennsauken Township? ▼
In 2024, Pennsauken Township reported 96 violent crimes and 1,663 property crimes, for a total of 1,759 reported offenses.
How do Pennsauken Township's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Pennsauken Township recorded about one reported offense per 22 residents and one reported violent offense per 398 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Pennsauken Township? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Pennsauken Township's violent crime rate decreased by 31.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.4%.
What is the most common crime in Pennsauken Township? ▼
The most common crime type in Pennsauken Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.9% of all reported crimes (1,194 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Pennsauken 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 Pennsauken Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.