Photo: Kritzolina · CC BY-SA 4.0Safety in Highland Lakes: figures, but no grade
Highland Lakes has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. A 10-mile radius takes in 5 places that are graded. For a graded neighbor, the nearest is Vernon Township (A+), 2 miles away.
The nearest New Jersey towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon Township | A+ | 2 mi | 0.1 | 1.4 |
| Hamburg | B+ | 6 mi | 1.9 | 4.0 |
| West Milford Township | A | 6 mi | 0.8 | 2.9 |
| Hardyston Township | A | 6 mi | 0.4 | 2.4 |
| Franklin | A | 8 mi | 0.3 | 5.5 |
| Ringwood | A+ | 11 mi | 0.3 | 2.0 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Highland Lakes. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Highland Lakes.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
No one died in a crash on Highland Lakes’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for New Jersey towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (4.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Highland Lakes’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Highland Lakes’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Highland Lakes and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
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Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Highland Lakes
Is Highland Lakes, NJ safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Highland Lakes. The nearest New Jersey towns with a grade are Vernon Township (A+, 2 mi), Hamburg (B+, 6 mi), West Milford Township (A, 6 mi).
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.