What is the crime rate in Belleville Township, NJ?

In 2025, the Belleville Police Department reported 94 violent crimes and 736 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 242 violent and 1,898 property crimes per 100,000 of the 38,778 residents it serves.

Across New Jersey the rates were 199 and 1,267.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 242
Property per 100,000: 1,898
Violent crimes: 94
Property crimes: 736

Crime reported by the Belleville Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	86	230	755	2,023	37,323
2024	95	250	768	2,018	38,062
2025	94	242	736	1,898	38,778

Violent crimes reported went from 86 in 2023 to 94 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 755 in 2023 to 736 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Belleville Township against New Jersey and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Belleville Township	242	1,898
Essex County	303	1,518
New Jersey	199	1,267
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Belleville Township, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Belleville Township	—	242	1,898
Bloomfield Township	1.7 mi	82	1,337
Nutley Township	1.9 mi	56	566
North Arlington Borough	1.9 mi	102	1,093
Glen Ridge Borough	2.4 mi	72	950
Lyndhurst Township	2.5 mi	31	807
East Newark Borough	2.9 mi	198	869
East Orange	3.3 mi	425	1,937
Montclair Township	3.4 mi	77	851

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

The figures for Belleville Township include the places inside it that have pages of their own: Silver Lake (Essex County).

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