Toms River Township, NJ has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 134 per 100,000, 62% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Toms River Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
At 102,734 residents, Toms River Township is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NJ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Toms River Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 62% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Toms River Township, NJ shows violent crime at 134.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,120.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 62% 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.
A safety grade
134.3/100K violent
1120.4/100K property
-62% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Toms River Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
Toms River Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Toms River Township's 134.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pine Beach (132.5), Berkeley Township (131.7), Atlantic Highlands (137.2), North Brunswick Township (137.2). 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 89.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 134.3 in 2024 (+49.4%). The highest observed value was 134.3 in 2024 and the lowest 83.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Toms River Township sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 134.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Toms River Township ranks 121 of 417 — above 296 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +97.1% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 10.7% of the 1,289 Part I offenses reported in Toms River Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 3.6 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 Toms River 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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Toms River Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Toms River Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 1,289 offenses; mix index 6,379).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+23.7%
108.6 → 134.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-10.2%
1247.9 → 1120.4/100K
Property offenses lead Toms River Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,151
1120.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,020
992.9
-
Burglary
78
75.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
53
51.6
-
Arson
5
4.9
-
Violent Crime
138
134.3
352
Aggravated Assault
98
95.4
-
Rape
29
28.2
-
Robbery
10
9.7
-
Murder
1
1
-
Toms River Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Toms River Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Toms River Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Toms River Township NIBRS-participating
Toms River Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Toms River Township's 1,289 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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
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Toms River Township at 134.3/100K violent and 1,120.4/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Toms River Township?
In 2024, Toms River Township reported 138 violent crimes and 1,151 property crimes, for a total of 1,289 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Toms River Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Toms River Township's violent crime rate increased by 23.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.2%.
What is the most common crime in Toms River Township?
The most common crime type in Toms River Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.1% of all reported crimes (1,020 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Toms River Township's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Toms River Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.