Roselle, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 45% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Roselle, NJ shows violent crime at 193.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,117 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 45% 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
193.5/100K violent
1117/100K property
-45% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Roselle, NJ
Comparable rate records
Roselle's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Roselle's 193.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mount Laurel Township (195.8), Hillside Township (196.9), Absecon (197.0), Hoboken (188.5). 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
Roselle reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 193.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Roselle ranks 72 of 417 — above 345 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +183.9% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 155.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 193.5 in 2024 (+24.4%). The highest observed value was 193.5 in 2024 and the lowest 125.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 14.8% of the 298 Part I offenses reported in Roselle for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 7.6 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 65.7% of reported property offenses in Roselle, against a cohort median of 82.1%. The remainder is burglary (31) and motor vehicle theft (56). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Roselle'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.
Roselle's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.6 Census sq mi, Roselle logged 96.4 property and 16.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Roselle leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,714.
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.6 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
-18.2%
1365.3 → 1117/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+10.4%
175.2 → 193.5/100K
Property offenses lead Roselle's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
254
1117
1711
Larceny-Theft
167
734.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
56
246.3
-
Burglary
31
136.3
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
44
193.5
352
Aggravated Assault
30
131.9
-
Rape
8
35.2
-
Robbery
6
26.4
-
Murder
0
0
-
Roselle Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Roselle property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Roselle: 194 violent, 1117 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Summit: 57 violent, 730 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Lyndhurst Township: 62 violent, 1084 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Vernon Township: 4 violent, 171 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Montville Township: 17 violent, 639 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
West Deptford Township: 100 violent, 1076 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Millburn Township: 5 violent, 2275 property per 100,000 (grade A)
North Plainfield: 152 violent, 1461 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Hillside Township: 197 violent, 3172 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Roselle Police Department
Reporting agency for Roselle NIBRS-participating
Roselle Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Roselle's 298 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.
Similar-Size Cities in New Jersey
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Roselle in population. Their populations run from 22,351 to 23,071, against 22,740 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Roselle reported 44 violent crimes and 254 property crimes, for a total of 298 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Roselle?
From 2023 to 2024, Roselle's violent crime rate increased by 10.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.2%.
What is the most common crime in Roselle?
The most common crime type in Roselle is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.0% of all reported crimes (167 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Roselle 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 Roselle, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.