NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Lawrence Township's rate for property crime is 15 per one thousand population.

One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 2064, which is a violent crime rate of 0 per one thousand inhabitants.

Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Lawrence Township than in most of America. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Lawrence Township.įor Lawrence Township, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Now let us turn to take a look at how Lawrence Township does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. So, whether Lawrence Township's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics. How does the crime rate in Lawrence Township compare to similar sized communities across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared Lawrence Township with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. Relative to New Jersey, Lawrence Township has a crime rate that is higher than 79% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes. Based on FBI crime data, Lawrence Township is not one of the safest communities in America. The chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in Lawrence Township is 1 in 66. The crime rate in Lawrence Township is considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America from the largest to the smallest, although at 15 crimes per one thousand residents, it is not among the communities with the very highest crime rate.

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