Somers Point, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 8% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Somers Point, NJ shows violent crime at 324.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,225.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 8% 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
324.8/100K violent
2225.8/100K property
-8% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Somers Point, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Somers Point reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 324.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Somers Point ranks 32 of 417 — above 385 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +376.6% 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
Somers Point's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Somers Point's 324.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Carteret (313.6), Lawnside (342.7), Willingboro Township (347.7), Maple Shade Township (352.7). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 237.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 324.8 in 2024 (+36.8%). The highest observed value was 437.5 in 2023 and the lowest 208.1 in 2021. 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 12.7% of the 267 Part I offenses reported in Somers Point for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 5.6 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 counts dominate Somers Point'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.
Somers Point's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4 Census sq mi, Somers Point logged 58.1 property and 8.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Somers Point's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 267 offenses; mix index 5,754).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4 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
-25.8%
437.5 → 324.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
+7.4%
2073.4 → 2225.8/100K
Property offenses lead Somers Point's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
233
2225.8
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
199
1901
-
Burglary
21
200.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
13
124.2
-
Arson
2
19.1
-
Violent Crime
34
324.8
215.7
Aggravated Assault
28
267.5
-
Rape
4
38.2
-
Robbery
2
19.1
-
Murder
0
0
-
Somers Point Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Somers Point 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
Somers Point: 325 violent, 2226 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Wood-Ridge: 29 violent, 574 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
River Vale Township: 29 violent, 288 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Waldwick: 19 violent, 348 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Woodbury: 213 violent, 1784 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Hillsdale: 0 violent, 263 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Waterford Township: 9 violent, 656 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Kinnelon: 10 violent, 351 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Maywood: 147 violent, 1398 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Somers Point Police Department
Reporting agency for Somers Point NIBRS-participating
Somers Point Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Somers Point's 267 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 Somers Point in population. Their populations run from 10,230 to 10,678, against 10,468 here. Or use our
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Somers Point at 324.8/100K violent and 2,225.8/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Somers Point reported 34 violent crimes and 233 property crimes, for a total of 267 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Somers Point?
From 2023 to 2024, Somers Point's violent crime rate decreased by 25.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.4%.
What is the most common crime in Somers Point?
The most common crime type in Somers Point is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.5% of all reported crimes (199 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Somers Point 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 Somers Point, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.