Springfield Township, Union County, NJ has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 64 per 100,000, 82% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Springfield Township, Union County (17,125 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
Springfield Township, Union County, NJ is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 82% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Springfield Township, Union County, NJ shows violent crime at 64.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 928.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 82% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Springfield Township, Union County reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 17,125. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Springfield Township, Union County's 64.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Logan Township (64.2), Moorestown Township (64.7), Barnegat Township (63.6), Mantua Township (63.1). 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
At 64.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Springfield Township, Union County ranks 216 of 417 — above 201 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -6.2% against the cohort median of 68.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Springfield Township, Union County'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 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 17,125. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Springfield Township, Union County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 170 offenses; mix index 5,502).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Springfield Township, Union County 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 | 159 | 928.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 123 | 718.2 |
| Burglary | 23 | 134.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 75.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 11 | 64.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 46.7 |
| Robbery | 3 | 17.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Springfield Township, Union County in population. Their populations run from 16,643 to 17,617, against 17,125 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Springfield Township, Union County sits at 64.2/100K violent (grade A); the New Jersey cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Springfield Township, Union County at 64.2/100K violent and 928.5/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
64.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
928.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Springfield Township, Union County reported 11 violent crimes and 159 property crimes, for a total of 170 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Springfield Township, Union County is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.4% of all reported crimes (123 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Springfield Township, Union County 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 Springfield Township, Union County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Springfield Township, Union County, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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