Princeton Among 100 Safest New Jersey Cities

PRINCETON, NJ — Princeton was ranked 62nd 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.

Princeton had seven violent crimes and 229 property crimes from 2016 and 2017, giving the town a violent-crime rate of 0.220 and 7.191 property crimes per 1,000 people.

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 nearby towns ranked:

35. Montgomery Township

81. South Brunswick

82. Hillsborough Township

122. West Windsor

222. Lawrence Township

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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