Riverside Township, NJ has a B safety grade (66/100) with a violent crime rate of 248 per 100,000, 30% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Riverside Township is a small municipal reporter (8,076 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NJ and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Riverside Township, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 30% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Riverside Township, NJ shows violent crime at 247.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,052.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 30% 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
Riverside Township reported 20 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,076. 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
At 247.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Riverside Township ranks 49 of 417 — above 368 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +263.4% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Riverside Township's 247.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hackensack (246.4), Somerdale (245.9), Belleville (249.6), Ewing Township (250.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.0% of the 105 Part I offenses reported in Riverside Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 11.9 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 205.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 247.6 in 2024 (+20.5%). The highest observed value was 263.3 in 2022 and the lowest 136.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Riverside 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.
Based on 20 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,076. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Riverside Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 105 offenses; mix index 4,848).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Riverside Township offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 85 | 1052.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 70 | 866.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 111.4 |
| Burglary | 6 | 74.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 20 | 247.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 18 | 222.9 |
| Rape | 2 | 24.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,788 | 205.4 | 1065.7 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 7,844 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,975 | 263.3 | 902.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,054 | 136.6 | 807.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,076 | 247.6 | 1052.5 |
Riverside Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Riverside Township's 105 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Riverside Township in population. Their populations run from 7,875 to 8,238, against 8,076 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Riverside Township sits at 247.6/100K violent (grade B); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Riverside Township reported 20 violent crimes and 85 property crimes, for a total of 105 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Riverside Township's violent crime rate increased by 81.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 30.4%.
The most common crime type in Riverside Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.7% of all reported crimes (70 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Riverside Township is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Riverside Township's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Riverside Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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