Photo: Redjockey · CC BY 3.0For violent crime, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township beats 85% of U.S. towns per resident
2 of the 5 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Police counts work out at 0.5 violent crime and 8.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of New Jersey they are 2.1 and 13.8. Across all the graded crimes, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township lands on B+ (#138 of 342 graded towns in New Jersey): less crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of NJ” is every other New Jersey city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township
2 of the 5 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 8 New Jersey towns on Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s borders, 5 have a Safety Grade: Denville Township (A+), Boonton (B+), Morris Plains (B+), Hanover Township (B), East Hanover Township (B−). Montville Township reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025. Mountain Lakes reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024. Morris Township reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023. Neighbors ↓
Among New Jersey towns, closer to the middle
New Jersey’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 60% of the 342 New Jersey towns we grade, against 73% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township has 53,300 jobs based in town for 56,633 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | Rest of New Jersey | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s police reported 84 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.1 in the rest of New Jersey and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Parsippany-Troy Hills Township property | Rest of New Jersey property | Parsippany-Troy Hills Township violent | Rest of New Jersey violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.1 | 13.9 | 0.3 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 9.3 | 14.8 | 0.3 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 8.6 | 14.0 | 0.5 | 2.2 |
| 2025 | 7.4 | 12.6 | 0.6 | 2.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of New Jersey.
458 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
36 violent and 422 property, as reported to the FBI by Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s police.
20 people died in crashes on Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s roads in 2019–2023
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township had 18 fatal crashes in five years, in which 20 people died; 4 were pedestrians. Most of these deaths (13 of 20) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is 7.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for New Jersey towns of 25,000–100,000 people (5.8, 102 towns).
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.
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | B+ | 0.5 | 8.4 |
| Montville Township | — | — | — |
| East Hanover Township | B− | 0.2 | 17.6 |
| Boonton | B+ | 0.4 | 8.3 |
| Mountain Lakes | — | — | — |
| Morris Township | — | — | — |
| Morris Plains | B+ | 0.2 | 10.6 |
| Hanover Township | B | 0.7 | 13.4 |
| Denville Township | A+ | 0.1 | 3.3 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Montville Township reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025. Mountain Lakes reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024. Morris Township reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023.
New Jersey towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | B+ | 0.5 | 8.4 |
| Bloomfield Township | B− | 1.0 | 14.4 |
| Hoboken | C+ | 1.8 | 15.4 |
| Wayne Township | C+ | 0.9 | 19.1 |
| Perth Amboy | C | 3.4 | 12.7 |
| New Brunswick | D | 6.7 | 23.9 |
The five graded New Jersey towns closest to Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s population (56,633), by grade.
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.
- One number for all of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (56,828 in 2025); our figure for Parsippany-Troy Hills Township is 56,633 (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 Parsippany-Troy Hills Township
Is Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, NJ safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township reports less crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #138 of 342 in New Jersey. Its police reported 0.5 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.1 in the rest of New Jersey and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township?
0.5 violent and 8.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of New Jersey reports 2.1 and 13.8; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township in 2025?
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Parsippany-Troy Hills Township safer than East Hanover Township?
East Hanover Township reports more crime per resident than Parsippany-Troy Hills Township: East Hanover Township grades B− for safety and Parsippany-Troy Hills Township B+. East Hanover Township’s police reported 0.2 violent and 17.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Parsippany-Troy Hills Township?
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Parsippany-Troy Hills Township”. 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.