Pine Hill, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 36% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pine Hill, NJ shows violent crime at 226.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,351.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 36% 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
226.7/100K violent
1351.1/100K property
-36% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pine Hill, NJ
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Pine Hill reported 25 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,028. 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.
Position in the state cohort
Pine Hill reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 226.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pine Hill ranks 57 of 417 — above 360 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +232.7% 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
Pine Hill's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pine Hill's 226.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Magnolia (224.5), Englewood (230.2), Dover (222.9), Clementon (230.9). 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 lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 306.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 226.7 in 2024 (-26.1%). The highest observed value was 306.9 in 2020 and the lowest 65.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 63.1% of reported property offenses in Pine Hill, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (30) and motor vehicle theft (25). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 14.4% of the 174 Part I offenses reported in Pine Hill for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 7.2 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 Pine Hill'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 25 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,028. 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.
Pine Hill's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.9 Census sq mi, Pine Hill logged 30.6 property and 5.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pine Hill leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,574.
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.9 sq mi); 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
-19.2%
1671.5 → 1351.1/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+1.7%
222.9 → 226.7/100K
Property offenses lead Pine Hill's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
149
1351.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
94
852.4
-
Burglary
30
272
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
25
226.7
-
Arson
3
27.2
-
Violent Crime
25
226.7
352
Aggravated Assault
21
190.4
-
Robbery
3
27.2
-
Murder
1
9.1
-
Rape
0
0
-
Pine Hill 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.
Pine Hill property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Pine Hill: 227 violent, 1351 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Manville: 100 violent, 964 property per 100,000 (grade A)
West Caldwell Township: 36 violent, 729 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Totowa: 128 violent, 1919 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Lincoln Park: 18 violent, 607 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Wanaque: 36 violent, 187 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Ocean City: 116 violent, 2063 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Franklin Lakes: 27 violent, 373 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
South Amboy: 139 violent, 1391 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Pine Hill Police Department
Reporting agency for Pine Hill NIBRS-participating
Pine Hill Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pine Hill's 174 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Pine Hill in population. Their populations run from 10,781 to 11,251, against 11,028 here. Or use our
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Pine Hill at 226.7/100K violent and 1,351.1/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Pine Hill reported 25 violent crimes and 149 property crimes, for a total of 174 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Pine Hill?
From 2023 to 2024, Pine Hill's violent crime rate increased by 1.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.2%.
What is the most common crime in Pine Hill?
The most common crime type in Pine Hill is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.0% of all reported crimes (94 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Pine Hill 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 Pine Hill, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.