Tewksbury Township, NJ has a A safety grade (89/100) with a violent crime rate of 85 per 100,000, 76% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Tewksbury Township is a small municipal reporter (5,899 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NJ and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Tewksbury Township, NJ is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 76% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tewksbury Township, NJ shows violent crime at 84.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 254.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 76% 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
Tewksbury Township reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,899. 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 Tewksbury Township's 84.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lumberton Township (85.2), Manasquan (85.3), Englishtown (85.5), Stratford (83.8). 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 25.0% of the 20 Part I offenses reported in Tewksbury Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 17.9 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 69.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 84.8 in 2024 (+21.9%). The highest observed value was 84.8 in 2024 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 84.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tewksbury Township ranks 176 of 417 — above 241 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +24.4% 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.
Property counts dominate Tewksbury 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 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,899. 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.
Tewksbury Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 20 offenses; mix index 4,150).
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Tewksbury 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 | 15 | 254.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 12 | 203.4 |
| Burglary | 2 | 33.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 17 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 84.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 67.8 |
| Rape | 1 | 17 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,754 | 69.5 | 573.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,723 | 0 | 192.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,918 | 16.9 | 67.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,921 | 0 | 202.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,899 | 84.8 | 254.3 |
Tewksbury Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Tewksbury Township's 20 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Tewksbury Township in population. Their populations run from 5,777 to 5,970, against 5,899 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Tewksbury Township reported 5 violent crimes and 15 property crimes, for a total of 20 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Tewksbury Township's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate increased by 25.5%.
The most common crime type in Tewksbury Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.0% of all reported crimes (12 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Tewksbury 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 Tewksbury Township's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Tewksbury Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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