Hillsborough Among 100 Safest New Jersey Cities

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — Hillsborough Township was ranked 82nd among the 100 safest cities in New Jersey on the National Council For Home Safety And Security's list of the 2019 Safest Cities in New Jersey on alarms.org.

Hillsborough had nine violent crimes and 225 property crimes from 2016 and 2017, giving the town a violent-crime rate of 0.223 and 6.317 property crimes per 1,000 people.

Warren was the highest ranked Somerset County town. River Vale in Bergen County was the top ranked city on the list.

The rankings cite data from the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Report. 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.

Here are how other Somerset County towns ranked:

2. Warren Township

16. Branchburg

35. Montgomery Township

42. Bernards Township

93. Somerville

105. Bridgewater

153. Bound Brook

158. Franklin Township

167. Manville

218. North Plainfield

View the rankings here. You can view up to the top 100 safest cities at once or search for a city to see where it ranks.

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