Willingboro Township, NJ has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 348 per 100,000, 1% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Willingboro Township, NJ Crime Rate & Safety
Willingboro Township (32,211 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NJ and national benchmarks.
Willingboro Township, NJ is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 1% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Willingboro Township, NJ shows violent crime at 347.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,297.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 1% 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
347.7/100K violent
1297.7/100K property
-1% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Willingboro Township, NJ
Position in the state cohort
Willingboro Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Jersey cities
At 347.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Willingboro Township ranks 30 of 417 — above 387 of the 416 other New Jersey cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +410.2% 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
Willingboro Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Jersey cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Willingboro Township's 347.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Maple Shade Township (352.7), Lawnside (342.7), North Wildwood (363.7), Somers Point (324.8). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 21.1% of the 530 Part I offenses reported in Willingboro Township for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Jersey cities — a gap of 14.0 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 296.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 347.7 in 2024 (+17.3%). The highest observed value was 358.3 in 2023 and the lowest 296.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Willingboro 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Willingboro Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Willingboro Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 530 offenses; mix index 4,074).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+5.2%
1233.9 → 1297.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-3%
358.3 → 347.7/100K
Property offenses lead Willingboro Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
418
1297.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
322
999.7
-
Burglary
59
183.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
37
114.9
-
Arson
4
12.4
-
Violent Crime
112
347.7
352
Aggravated Assault
72
223.5
-
Rape
19
59
-
Robbery
18
55.9
-
Murder
3
9.3
-
Willingboro 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.
Willingboro 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Willingboro Township: 348 violent, 1298 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Lawrence Township, Mercer County: 28 violent, 1829 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Voorhees Township: 78 violent, 1586 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Livingston Township: 79 violent, 855 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Stafford Township: 41 violent, 770 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Long Branch: 242 violent, 1628 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Garfield: 199 violent, 1751 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Westfield: 16 violent, 556 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Princeton: 49 violent, 717 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Willingboro Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Willingboro Township NIBRS-participating
Willingboro Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Willingboro Township's 530 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Jersey cities closest to Willingboro Township in population. Their populations run from 30,838 to 33,129, against 32,211 here. Or use our
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Willingboro Township at 347.7/100K violent and 1,297.7/100K property - matched below outside New Jersey (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Willingboro Township?
In 2024, Willingboro Township reported 112 violent crimes and 418 property crimes, for a total of 530 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Willingboro Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Willingboro Township's violent crime rate decreased by 3%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.2%.
What is the most common crime in Willingboro Township?
The most common crime type in Willingboro Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.8% of all reported crimes (322 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Willingboro Township 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 Willingboro Township, NJ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.