Alloway is a township of 1,220 in Salem County, about 30 miles south of downtown Philadelphia · Updated November 2026
Is Alloway, NJ safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Alloway is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Alloway sits near the middle: 41% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 59% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B+.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 787 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
41% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Alloway as a whole, and 59% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Alloway scores 787.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Alloway, NJ at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Alloway, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Alloway
Theft stands out among A-graded cities. For the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 8.3 thefts a year per 1,000 residents; Alloway has 27.4.
Simple assault at about triple the US rate. Alloway has 31.8 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 9.7 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Alloway
CrimeGrade™ estimates Alloway has about 70 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 89% more than the US as a whole and more than double the rate for New Jersey.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Assault is the most common crime in Alloway, about 47% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
How Alloway compares with nearby cities
Alloway has less crime than 1 of its 2 nearest cities; only Woodstown has less.
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Alloway about $1,454 a year per household, 21% more than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $1.2 million a year, or $976 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$21,000
$18
Rape
$28,000
$23
Robbery
$3,400
$3
Assault
$340,000
$277
Burglary
$61,000
$50
Theft
$170,000
$141
Vehicle theft
$24,000
$20
Arson
$660
$1
Vandalism
$19,000
$16
Total
$670,000
$547
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Alloway means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Alloway, NJ average a SchoolGrade of D-: 28% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they underperform expectations. See schools in Alloway on SchoolGrade
