Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Spring Lake Heights records less crime than almost every U.S. town
Its 3 neighbors with figures all record more crime per resident. Each year brought 1.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents (13.8 in the rest of New Jersey). From 2023 to 2025, crimes Spring Lake Heights’ police reported put it at A+ for safety: #1 of 342 graded towns in New Jersey.
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 Spring Lake Heights
Spring Lake Heights reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 3 New Jersey towns on Spring Lake Heights’ borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Sea Girt (A), Wall Township (B), Spring Lake (B). Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Spring Lake Heights’ 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.
Crime in Spring Lake Heights 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 no violent crimes, 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 | Spring Lake Heights property | Rest of New Jersey property | Spring Lake Heights violent | Rest of New Jersey violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.8 | 13.9 | 0.0 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 1.0 | 14.8 | 0.0 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 1.5 | 14.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 |
| 2025 | 2.1 | 12.6 | 0.0 | 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.
10 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.
0 violent and 10 property, as reported to the FBI by Spring Lake Heights’ police.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Spring Lake Heights | Rest of New Jersey | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Spring Lake Heights’ police reported 0 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.1 in the rest of New Jersey and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Two people died in crashes on Spring Lake Heights’s roads in 2019–2023
Spring Lake Heights had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 Spring Lake Heights’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Spring Lake Heights’s own rate (8.2) 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.
Spring Lake Heights and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Lake Heights | A+ | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Wall Township | B | 0.8 | 12.0 |
| Sea Girt | A | 0.5 | 3.8 |
| Spring Lake | B | 0.1 | 15.1 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
New Jersey towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Lake Heights | A+ | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Brielle | A | 0.5 | 3.0 |
| Northvale | A | 0.1 | 6.0 |
| Flemington | C | 1.3 | 25.7 |
| Point Pleasant Beach | C− | 3.0 | 20.5 |
| Mount Ephraim | D | 1.7 | 46.1 |
The five graded New Jersey towns closest to Spring Lake Heights’ population (4,868), 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 Spring Lake Heights. 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 Spring Lake Heights’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,854 in 2025); our figure for Spring Lake Heights is 4,868 (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 Spring Lake Heights
Is Spring Lake Heights, NJ safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Spring Lake Heights reports less crime per resident than 99% of U.S. towns, an A+ Safety Grade and #1 of 342 in New Jersey. Its police reported 0.0 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 Spring Lake Heights?
0.0 violent and 1.5 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.
Is Spring Lake Heights safer than Wall Township?
Wall Township reports more crime per resident than Spring Lake Heights: Wall Township grades B for safety and Spring Lake Heights A+. Wall Township’s police reported 0.8 violent and 12.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Spring Lake Heights?
Spring Lake Heights’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Spring Lake Heights”. 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.