Union Township, NJ has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 90 per 100,000, 74% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Union Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
At 62,290 residents, Union 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.
Union Township, NJ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 74% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Union Township, NJ shows violent crime at 89.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,634.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 74% 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
89.9/100K violent
1634.3/100K property
-74% vs U.S.
The verdict
Union Township earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 74% below the U.S. average, placing it safer than most U.S. cities.
A
PlainCrime safety grade
-74%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
74th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
1,634.3
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Union Township, NJ
Comparable rate records
Union Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Union Township's 89.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Beach Haven (90.6), West Milford Township (93.0), Wall Township (86.6), Dunellen (93.4). 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
Union Township sits mid-pack among comparable New Jersey cities
At 89.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Union Township ranks 170 of 417 — above 247 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +31.9% 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 95.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 89.9 in 2024 (-5.9%). The highest observed value was 95.5 in 2020 and the lowest 72.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Union 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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-19.2%
2021.7 → 1634.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-1.7%
91.5 → 89.9/100K
Property offenses lead Union Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NJ
Property Crime
1,018
1634.3
1395.7
Larceny-Theft
867
1391.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
93
149.3
-
Burglary
58
93.1
-
Arson
2
3.2
-
Violent Crime
56
89.9
215.7
Aggravated Assault
34
54.6
-
Robbery
17
27.3
-
Murder
4
6.4
-
Rape
1
1.6
-
Union 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.
Union Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
1,634.3/100K↓19.2%vs 2023
Union Township violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
89.9/100K↓1.7%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
58,613
95.5
1235.2
780
2021
Insufficient reporting
62,583
-
-
-
2022
Comparable
59,622
72.1
1231.1
777
2023
Comparable
61,235
91.5
2021.7
1,294
2024
Comparable
62,290
89.9
1634.3
1,074
How Union Township sits among NJ peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Union Township Police Department NIBRS-participating
Union Township's crime figures on this page originate from Union Township Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Union Township in population. Their populations run from 57,293 to 66,307, against 62,290 here. Or use our
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These New Jersey cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Union Township's 89.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Union Township has a violent crime rate of 89.9 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1634.3 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Union Township, NJ safe? ▼
Union Township receives a safety grade of A (Safe), with a safety score of 77/100. The violent crime rate is 74% below the national average and 58% below the New Jersey average.
What is the population of Union Township, NJ? ▼
The reporting population for Union Township is 62,290 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Union Township? ▼
In 2024, Union Township reported 56 violent crimes and 1,018 property crimes, for a total of 1,074 reported offenses.
How do Union Township's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Union Township recorded about one reported offense per 58 residents and one reported violent offense per 1112 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Union Township? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Union Township's violent crime rate decreased by 1.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.2%.
What is the most common crime in Union Township? ▼
The most common crime type in Union Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.7% of all reported crimes (867 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Union 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 Union Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.