Piscataway Township, NJ has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 108 per 100,000, 69% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Piscataway Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
At 62,342 residents, Piscataway Township 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.
Piscataway Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 69% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Piscataway Township, NJ shows violent crime at 107.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 699.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 69% 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.
A safety grade
107.5/100K violent
699.4/100K property
-69% vs U.S.
The verdict
Piscataway Township earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 69% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
A
PlainCrime safety grade
-69%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
69th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
699.4
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Piscataway Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
Piscataway Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Piscataway Township's 107.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ventnor City (108.3), Brigantine (105.7), Avon-by-the-Sea (103.4), Fairview (111.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Piscataway Township sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 107.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Piscataway Township ranks 152 of 417 — above 265 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +57.7% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 13.3% of the 503 Part I offenses reported in Piscataway Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 6.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 105.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 107.5 in 2024 (+1.9%). The highest observed value was 153.7 in 2022 and the lowest 105.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Piscataway 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.
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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-28.5%
978.6 → 699.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-22.7%
139.1 → 107.5/100K
Property offenses lead Piscataway Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
436
699.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
337
540.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
53
85
-
Burglary
46
73.8
-
Arson
1
1.6
-
Violent Crime
67
107.5
352
Aggravated Assault
57
91.4
-
Robbery
10
16
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Piscataway Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Piscataway Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
699.4/100K↓28.5%vs 2023
Piscataway Township violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
107.5/100K↓22.7%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
56,870
105.5
678.7
446
2021
Comparable
59,699
129
589.6
429
2022
Comparable
61,170
153.7
778.2
570
2023
Comparable
60,391
139.1
978.6
675
2024
Comparable
62,342
107.5
699.4
503
How Piscataway Township sits among NJ peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Piscataway Township Police Department NIBRS-participating
Piscataway Township's crime figures on this page originate from Piscataway 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 Piscataway Township in population. Their populations run from 57,293 to 66,307, against 62,342 here. Or use our
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These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Piscataway Township's 107.5/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
What is the crime rate in Piscataway Township, NJ? ▼
Piscataway Township has a violent crime rate of 107.5 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 699.4 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Piscataway Township, NJ safe? ▼
Piscataway Township receives a safety grade of A (Safe), with a safety score of 83/100. The violent crime rate is 69% below the national average and 50% below the New Jersey average.
What is the population of Piscataway Township, NJ? ▼
The reporting population for Piscataway Township is 62,342 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Piscataway Township? ▼
In 2024, Piscataway Township reported 67 violent crimes and 436 property crimes, for a total of 503 reported offenses.
How do Piscataway Township's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Piscataway Township recorded about one reported offense per 124 residents and one reported violent offense per 930 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Piscataway Township? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Piscataway Township's violent crime rate decreased by 22.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 28.5%.
What is the most common crime in Piscataway Township? ▼
The most common crime type in Piscataway Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.0% of all reported crimes (337 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Piscataway Township'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 Piscataway Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.