Perth Amboy, NJ has a C safety grade (49/100) with a violent crime rate of 392 per 100,000, 11% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Perth Amboy, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
At 56,409 residents, Perth Amboy 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.
Perth Amboy, NJ carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 11% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Perth Amboy, NJ shows violent crime at 391.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,368.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 11% above 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
391.8/100K violent
1368.6/100K property
+11% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Perth Amboy, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Perth Amboy reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 391.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Perth Amboy ranks 25 of 417 — above 392 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +474.9% 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
Perth Amboy's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Perth Amboy's 391.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Wildwood (390.8), Lindenwold (401.2), Pleasantville (402.5), Burlington City (375.3). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 266.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 391.8 in 2024 (+46.9%). The highest observed value was 391.8 in 2024 and the lowest 266.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.3% of the 993 Part I offenses reported in Perth Amboy for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 15.1 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 counts dominate Perth Amboy'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.
Perth Amboy's 2024 municipal footprint
Perth Amboy leans on larceny-theft at 59% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,998.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-16.3%
1634.7 → 1368.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+6.7%
367.3 → 391.8/100K
Property offenses lead Perth Amboy's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
772
1368.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
585
1037.1
-
Burglary
94
166.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
93
164.9
-
Arson
3
5.3
-
Violent Crime
221
391.8
352
Aggravated Assault
184
326.2
-
Robbery
22
39
-
Rape
12
21.3
-
Murder
3
5.3
-
Perth Amboy Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Perth Amboy property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Perth Amboy Police Department
Reporting agency for Perth Amboy NIBRS-participating
Perth Amboy Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Perth Amboy's 993 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Perth Amboy in population. Their populations run from 53,295 to 59,532, against 56,409 here. Or use our
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Perth Amboy at 391.8/100K violent and 1,368.6/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Perth Amboy reported 221 violent crimes and 772 property crimes, for a total of 993 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Perth Amboy?
From 2023 to 2024, Perth Amboy's violent crime rate increased by 6.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.3%.
What is the most common crime in Perth Amboy?
The most common crime type in Perth Amboy is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.9% of all reported crimes (585 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Perth Amboy'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 Perth Amboy, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.