Secaucus, NJ is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 57% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Secaucus, NJ shows violent crime at 151.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,636.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% below 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.
C safety grade
151.5/100K violent
3636.2/100K property
-57% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Secaucus, NJ
Comparable rate records
Secaucus's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Secaucus's 151.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are North Plainfield (151.7), Rochelle Park Township (150.8), Highland Park (150.7), Lakewood Township (150.5). 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
Secaucus reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 151.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Secaucus ranks 102 of 417 — above 315 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +122.3% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 221.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 151.5 in 2024 (-31.7%). The highest observed value was 233.9 in 2022 and the lowest 151.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 4.0% of the 800 Part I offenses reported in Secaucus for 2024, against a median of 7.2% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 3.2 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 Secaucus'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.
Secaucus's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.8 Census sq mi, Secaucus logged 131.8 property and 5.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Secaucus's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 800 offenses; mix index 7,111).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-15.1%
178.5 → 151.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
+7.1%
3395.4 → 3636.2/100K
Property offenses lead Secaucus's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
vs US avg
Property Crime
768
3636.2
1395.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
670
3172.2
-
-
Burglary
71
336.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
27
127.8
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
32
151.5
215.7
352
Aggravated Assault
17
80.5
-
-
Robbery
10
47.3
-
-
Rape
5
23.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Secaucus Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Secaucus 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
Secaucus: 152 violent, 3636 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Morristown: 265 violent, 798 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Harrison: 234 violent, 1753 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Hazlet Township: 82 violent, 1350 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Pleasantville: 403 violent, 1474 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Moorestown Township: 65 violent, 1044 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Elmwood Park: 221 violent, 2246 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Palisades Park: 24 violent, 689 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Lower Township: 156 violent, 719 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Secaucus Police Department
Reporting agency for Secaucus NIBRS-participating
Secaucus Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Secaucus's 800 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 Secaucus in population. Their populations run from 20,477 to 21,848, against 21,121 here. Or use our
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Secaucus at 151.5/100K violent and 3,636.2/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Secaucus reported 32 violent crimes and 768 property crimes, for a total of 800 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Secaucus?
From 2023 to 2024, Secaucus's violent crime rate decreased by 15.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.1%.
What is the most common crime in Secaucus?
The most common crime type in Secaucus is larceny-theft, accounting for 83.8% of all reported crimes (670 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Secaucus 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 Secaucus, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.