The Garden State boasts an excellent safety record, recording the 6th lowest property crime rate along with the 8th lowest violent crime rate in the United States. Unsurprisingly, dozens of individual New Jersey cities fared very well on our Safety Index, which factors in FBI crime statistics and law enforcement data to determine the safety of a given community. 

A whopping 206 New Jersey cities scored a 0.3 or higher on the Safety Index, more than any other state. What’s more, 116 cities scored a 0.6 or higher, indicating an extremely high level of safety and crime rates well below the national average. While you’d be hard pressed to find a particularly dangerous community in the state (outside of a handful of larger cities), let’s put the focus on New Jersey’s six safest cities, all scoring a 0.93 or higher on the Safety Index.

Ocean City is our pick for New Jersey’s safest city, scoring a sky high 1.35 on our Safety Index. The seaside resort community recorded just 12 violent crimes in 2017 for a low 1.13 per 1,000 inhabitants.

Weehawken Township also performed very well on the Safety Index, logging a 1.09 Safety index score on the strength of a violent crime rate under 1 per 1,000 inhabitants.

Not far behind is #3 Ventnor City. The city of just over 10K recorded an impressively low 0.58 violent crimes per 1,000 inhabitants, although its property crime rate is above the national average.

Ranking 4th is Wall Township, a steadily growing community in Monmouth County known for its coastline and many public parks. Wall Township recorded a 0.73 per 1,000 violent crime rate and an equally impressive 9.79 per 1,000 property crime rate.

Sharing the #5 spot are Tenafly and Florham Park, which each scored a 0.93 on the Safety Index. Both achieved violent crime rates below 1 per 1,000 and property crime rates below 10 per 1,000.