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Safety in Keansburg · Not graded

What is recorded in Keansburg, and why there is no grade

Of the graded towns, Hazlet Township is the closest, at B. Keansburg’s police reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025.

Violent crimes
24
reported to the FBI, 2025
Property crimes
70
reported to the FBI, 2025
Nearest graded town
2 mi
Hazlet Township (B)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 7 property crimes reported

Property crime (7.2)Violent crime (2.5)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Keansburg2.5
Rest of NJ2.0
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Keansburg7.2
Rest of NJ12.6
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

And about 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

By year

The years Keansburg’s police reported

Show as a table
YearKeansburgRest of New JerseyKeansburgRest of New Jersey
202213.413.93.61.9
2023not reported14.8not reported2.2
202412.814.01.82.2
20257.212.62.52.0

Crimes per 1,000 residents

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of New Jersey. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.

What gets reported

94 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft65
Burglary4
Vehicle theft1
Aggravated assault21
Robbery3
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
24
violent crimes
70
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

24 violent and 70 property, as reported to the FBI by Keansburg’s police.

Nearest with figures

The nearest New Jersey towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
Hazlet TownshipB2 mi0.911.1
KeyportB−3 mi1.413.6
Aberdeen TownshipB4 mi1.57.6
Holmdel TownshipA−5 mi0.36.8
Middletown TownshipA−6 mi0.66.1
South AmboyB−7 mi1.511.7

Straight-line distance from the center of Keansburg. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Keansburg.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Keansburg’s roads in 2019–2023

That is about what is typical for New Jersey towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (4.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Keansburg’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Keansburg’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
per 100,000 a year · New Jersey towns of 5,000–25,000: 4.5

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.

Next door

Keansburg and its neighbors

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Union Beach———
KeyportB−1.413.6
Hazlet TownshipB0.911.1
Middletown TownshipA−0.66.1
Aberdeen TownshipB1.57.6

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Union Beach reported to the FBI for 2023 but not 2024 or 2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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.
  • One number for all of Keansburg. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
  • Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Keansburg’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (9,674 in 2025); our figure for Keansburg is 9,818 (2025 Census estimate).
  • 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 Keansburg

Is Keansburg, NJ safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Keansburg. The nearest New Jersey towns with a grade are Hazlet Township (B, 2 mi), Keyport (B−, 3 mi), Aberdeen Township (B, 4 mi).

Who polices Keansburg?

Keansburg’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Keansburg”. Its figures are the ones on this page.

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, 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.