Pine Beach, NJ has a A safety grade (86/100) with a violent crime rate of 133 per 100,000, 62% below the national average.
Pine Beach's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,264). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NJ and U.S. averages.
Pine Beach, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 62% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pine Beach, NJ shows violent crime at 132.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 88.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 62% 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.
The verdict
Pine Beach earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 62% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
Based on 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,264. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 45.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 132.5 in 2024 (+190.5%). The highest observed value was 134.6 in 2023 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 60.0% of the 5 Part I offenses reported in Pine Beach for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 52.9 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 0.0% of reported property offenses in Pine Beach, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Small-count caution
Pine Beach reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,264. 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 Pine Beach's 132.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Berkeley Township (131.7), Fort Lee (131.0), Toms River Township (134.3), Berlin Township (130.5). 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
At 132.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pine Beach ranks 122 of 417 — above 295 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +94.4% 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.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Pine Beach's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,264. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 3 | 132.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 132.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 2 | 88.3 |
| Burglary | 2 | 88.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,192 | 45.6 | 365 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 2,307 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,201 | 45.4 | 45.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,228 | 134.6 | 134.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,264 | 132.5 | 88.3 |
Pine Beach's crime figures on this page originate from Pine Beach 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Pine Beach in population. Their populations run from 2,128 to 2,472, against 2,264 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Pine Beach's 132.5/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Micro-municipal read: Pine Beach's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Pine Beach's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pine Beach, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Pine Beach is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,264 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.