Phillipsburg, NJ has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 156 per 100,000, 56% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Phillipsburg (15,363 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
Phillipsburg, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 56% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Phillipsburg, NJ shows violent crime at 156.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,777 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% 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
Phillipsburg reported 24 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 15,363. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Phillipsburg's 156.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Aberdeen Township (156.2), Bloomingdale (155.6), Lower Township (155.6), Long Beach Township (155.3). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 268.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 156.2 in 2024 (-41.9%). The highest observed value was 305.7 in 2022 and the lowest 156.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 156.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Phillipsburg ranks 94 of 417 — above 323 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +129.2% 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.
Property counts dominate Phillipsburg'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 24 reported violent incidents in a population of 15,363. 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 3.2 Census sq mi, Phillipsburg logged 85.6 property and 7.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Phillipsburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 297 offenses; mix index 6,223).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Phillipsburg offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.2 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 | 273 | 1777 |
| Larceny-Theft | 232 | 1510.1 |
| Burglary | 22 | 143.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 19 | 123.7 |
| Arson | 4 | 26 |
| Violent Crime | 24 | 156.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 65.1 |
| Robbery | 9 | 58.6 |
| Rape | 5 | 32.5 |
| Murder | 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 | 14,136 | 268.8 | 1669.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 14,172 | 239.9 | 1453.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 15,374 | 305.7 | 1730.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 15,368 | 279.8 | 1626.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,363 | 156.2 | 1777 |
Phillipsburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Phillipsburg's 297 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Phillipsburg in population. Their populations run from 15,009 to 15,669, against 15,363 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Phillipsburg sits at 156.2/100K violent (grade B); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Phillipsburg at 156.2/100K violent and 1,777/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
156.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,777/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Phillipsburg reported 24 violent crimes and 273 property crimes, for a total of 297 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Phillipsburg's violent crime rate decreased by 44.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 9.2%.
The most common crime type in Phillipsburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.1% of all reported crimes (232 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Phillipsburg 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 Phillipsburg's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Phillipsburg, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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