Barnegat, Stafford Among 100 Safest New Jersey Cities

Barnegat and Manahawkin were named two of the 100 safest cities in New Jersey. Barnegat ranked 55th, and Stafford placed 65th on the National Council For Home Safety And Security's list of the 2019 Safest Cities in New Jersey on alarms.org.

The rankings cite data from the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Report, which features statistics from 2016 and 2017. But they eliminated cities that didn't give the FBI a complete crime report and cities with populations lower than 10,000.

The list accounts for the number of reported violent and property crimes per 1,000 people. Then they compute a variable called Police Adequacy — total crimes divided by the number of police employees. The smaller the Police Adequacy number, the safer the city, according to the methodology.

Barnegat had eight violent crimes and 143 property crimes in that time span, giving the town a violent-crime rate of 0.353 and 6.313 property crimes per 1,000 people.

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Stafford experienced 25 violent crimes and 201 property crimes, giving them a violent-crime rate of 0.911 and property-crime rate of 7.327 per 1,000 people.

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