Pleasantville, NJ has a C safety grade (47/100) with a violent crime rate of 403 per 100,000, 14% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Pleasantville (20,619 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
Pleasantville, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 14% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pleasantville, NJ shows violent crime at 402.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,474.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 14% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 134.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 402.5 in 2024 (+200.2%). The highest observed value was 402.5 in 2024 and the lowest 134.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 402.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pleasantville ranks 23 of 417 — above 394 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +490.7% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pleasantville's 402.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lindenwold (401.2), Elizabeth (408.7), Plainfield (410.9), Perth Amboy (391.8). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 48.7% of reported property offenses in Pleasantville, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (124) and motor vehicle theft (32). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.4% of the 387 Part I offenses reported in Pleasantville for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 14.3 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 Pleasantville'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 5.7 Census sq mi, Pleasantville logged 53.1 property and 14.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pleasantville leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,823.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Pleasantville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.7 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 | 304 | 1474.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 148 | 717.8 |
| Burglary | 124 | 601.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 32 | 155.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 83 | 402.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 61 | 295.8 |
| Robbery | 15 | 72.7 |
| Rape | 6 | 29.1 |
| Murder | 1 | 4.8 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 20,135 | 134.1 | 1326 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 20,038 | 149.7 | 563.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 20,603 | 218.4 | 1009.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 20,694 | 318.9 | 1763.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 20,619 | 402.5 | 1474.4 |
Pleasantville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pleasantville's 387 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Pleasantville in population. Their populations run from 20,068 to 21,172, against 20,619 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Pleasantville sits at 402.5/100K violent (grade C); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Pleasantville at 402.5/100K violent and 1,474.4/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
402.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,474.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Pleasantville reported 83 violent crimes and 304 property crimes, for a total of 387 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Pleasantville's violent crime rate increased by 26.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.4%.
The most common crime type in Pleasantville is larceny-theft, accounting for 38.2% of all reported crimes (148 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Pleasantville 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 Pleasantville's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pleasantville, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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