Policing The Hills: who reports, and what
Bernards Township, 3 miles away, is the nearest town with a Safety Grade (A+). Inside a 10-mile circle sit 12 graded neighbors. The Hills has no police department of its own: it’s an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) in Somerset County. The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office reports to the FBI for the parts of the county without police of their own, so there are no figures for The Hills alone, and no Safety Grade.
What stands out about safety in The Hills
Policed by the county
The Hills is a census-designated place, with no town government. Crimes there are reported to the FBI inside the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office’s totals for the county. County police ↓
Counts, not rates
The FBI doesn’t publish how many people the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office covers, so its totals can’t be turned into a per-resident rate or a grade for The Hills. County police ↓
The nearest graded towns
The closest New Jersey towns with their own police figures are Bernards Township (A+, 3 mi), Bedminster Township (A, 4 mi), Warren Township (A, 6 mi). Nearby towns can differ a lot from The Hills. Nearest ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office reports
Reports to the FBI for the parts of Somerset County without police of their own, which include The Hills.
Property crimes
Violent crimes
Also reports crimes in Somerset County to the FBI.
Property crimes
Violent crimes
2025 offenses reported by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office
Counts, not rates: the FBI doesn’t publish how many people each agency covers. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Tables 10–11.
Crimes reported to the FBI for the whole area the department covers, by year.
The nearest New Jersey towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernards Township | A+ | 3 mi | 0.0 | 1.6 |
| Bedminster Township | A | 4 mi | 0.3 | 3.5 |
| Warren Township | A | 6 mi | 0.1 | 4.0 |
| Bernardsville | A | 6 mi | 0.2 | 4.4 |
| Green Brook Township | A− | 8 mi | 0.6 | 6.2 |
| Middlesex | A | 8 mi | 0.3 | 5.3 |
Straight-line distance from the center of The Hills. Nearby towns can differ a lot from The Hills.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
One person died in crashes on The Hills’s roads in 2019–2023
The Hills had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died. Most of these deaths (1 of 1) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
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 The Hills’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so The Hills’s own rate (1.9) 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.
The Hills and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernards Township | A+ | 0.0 | 1.6 |
| Bedminster Township | A | 0.3 | 3.5 |
| Bridgewater Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Bridgewater Township reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023.
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 The Hills
Is The Hills, NJ safe?
There is no Safety Grade for The Hills. The nearest New Jersey towns with a grade are Bernards Township (A+, 3 mi), Bedminster Township (A, 4 mi), Warren Township (A, 6 mi).
Who polices The Hills?
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office. The Hills is an unincorporated community, and the department reports to the FBI for the parts of Somerset County without police of their own.
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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.