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You Won't Believe What's Ranked The '100 Most Dangerous Places In NJ,' Berkeley

Yes, your town and many others may have been ranked among the 200 most dangerous towns in N.J. You won't believe who made the list.

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You probably won’t believe who fell on this list.

The Roadsnacks website, a data compiler that specializes in creating lists that rate communities on how ”snobby” or “redneck” they are, went there, compiled a list that rates the most “dangerous” towns in several states - including New Jersey.

Roadsnacks.net, which recently provided a list of N.J. Towns with the highest rate of Ashley Madison ”cheaters,” has compiled a list of the most ”dangerous” towns using the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, which summarizes the number of property crimes and violent crimes in each city per year. Violent crimes were defined as rapes, murders, robberies and aggravated assaults.

The Roadsnacks people looked at towns that have populations of more than 10,000 as of 2013, saying that was the last year the crime report was available.

“We must note that this report is not an analysis of the effectiveness of local police departments,” the site says. “It simply states where crimes occurred most frequently.”

Here is the list:

  1. Atlantic City
  2. Asbury Park
  3. Millville
  4. Bridgeton
  5. Irvington
  6. Newark
  7. Neptune Township
  8. Woodbury
  9. Lindenwold
  10. Trenton
  11. Elizabeth
  12. Paterson
  13. Orange
  14. Vineland
  15. Plainfield
  16. New Brunswick
  17. Middle Township
  18. Pennsauken
  19. Deptford
  20. Pleasantville
  21. Long Branch
  22. Hillside
  23. Pine Hill
  24. Eatontown
  25. Harrison
  26. Somers Point
  27. Morristown
  28. Linden
  29. Totowa
  30. Pemberton
  31. Gloucester City
  32. Hamilton Township, Atlantic County
  33. Perth Amboy
  34. Collingswood
  35. Belleville
  36. Phillipsburg
  37. Willingboro
  38. Gloucester Township
  39. Cherry Hill
  40. Jersey City
  41. Bloomfield
  42. Paramus
  43. East Orange
  44. Passaic
  45. Roselle
  46. Ocean City
  47. Pennsville Township
  48. Ocean Township, Monmouth County
  49. Ventnor
  50. Glassboro
  51. Kearny
  52. Maple Shade
  53. South Orange
  54. Garfield
  55. Hamilton Township, Mercer County
  56. Lumberton Township
  57. Freehold
  58. Egg Harbor Township
  59. Union City
  60. Red Bank
  61. Hoboken
  62. Hackensack
  63. Bellmawr
  64. Haddon
  65. Lawrence Township, Mercer County
  66. Lower Township
  67. North Plainfield
  68. Clifton
  69. Maplewood 
  70. Bound Brook
  71. Toms River
  72. Ewing Township
  73. Englewood
  74. Weehawken
  75. Galloway Township
  76. Winslow Township
  77. Cinnaminson
  78. Secaucus
  79. Rahway
  80. Little Egg Harbor
  81. Monroe Township, Gloucester County
  82. Dover
  83. Woodbridge
  84. Union Township
  85. Freehold Township
  86. Washington Township, Gloucester County
  87. Somerville
  88. Voorhees
  89. Moorestown
  90. Montclair
  91. Carteret
  92. Lodi
  93. Franklin Township, Gloucester County
  94. West New York
  95. Manville
  96. Elmwood Park
  97. North Brunswick
  98. East Hanover
  99. West Orange

100. Bayonne

Next 100:

  1. Burlington Township
  2. Guttenberg
  3. Franklin Township, Somerset County
  4. Lacey
  5. Millburn
  6. South Plainfield
  7. Brick Township
  8. Fairview
  9. Wayne
  10. Tinton Falls
  11. Teaneck
  12. Bordentown
  13. South River
  14. Waterford
  15. Aberdeen
  16. Edison
  17. Mantua
  18. Edgewater
  19. Delran
  20. North Bergen
  21. Mount Laurel
  22. Beachwood
  23. Cliffside Park
  24. Haddonfield
  25. Point Pleasant
  26. West Deptford Township
  27. Wallington
  28. Stafford Township (Manahawkin)
  29. Little Falls Township
  30. Sayreville
  31. Rockaway Township
  32. Lakewood
  33. Saddle Brook
  34. Old Bridge
  35. East Brunswick
  36. Highland Park
  37. North Arlington
  38. Lyndhurst
  39. Howell
  40. Barnegat
  41. West Milford
  42. Evesham
  43. Rutherford
  44. Little Ferry
  45. Hanover
  46. Wall Township
  47. Hammonton
  48. Ramsey
  49. Metuchen
  50. West Windsor
  51. Piscataway
  52. Pompton Lakes
  53. Jackson
  54. Livingston
  55. Woodland Park
  56. Nutley
  57. Florence
  58. South Brunswick
  59. Springfield
  60. Middletown
  61. Medford
  62. Fair Lawn
  63. Holmdel Township
  64. Princeton
  65. Ridgefield Park
  66. Vernon Township
  67. Lincoln Park
  68. Fort Lee
  69. Scotch Plains
  70. Harrison
  71. Roxbury
  72. Palisades Park
  73. East Greenwich
  74. Bridgewater
  75. Hopatcong
  76. Hawthorne
  77. Roselle Park
  78. Robbinsville
  79. Hazlet
  80. Wanaque
  81. Manchester
  82. Mount Olive
  83. Middlesex
  84. Manalapan
  85. Hopewell
  86. Summit
  87. Clark
  88. Parsippany-Troy Hills
  89. West Caldwell
  90. Colts Neck
  91. Dumont
  92. Ridgewood
  93. Verona
  94. Florham Park
  95. Branchburg Township
  96. Bergenfield
  97. Pequannock
  98. Morris
  99. Westfield

100. Readington

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