Browns Mills, NJ Crime Map

Browns Mills, NJ Safety Overview: What the Data Actually Shows

Browns Mills is a community of 10,228 residents in Burlington County, New Jersey, and its safety profile is notably strong despite carrying an overall crime grade of C at the city level. When you break the data down by neighborhood, the picture sharpens considerably: across all 6 analyzed neighborhoods, 83.3% earned an A grade and 16.7% earned a B grade, meaning 100% of neighborhoods fall into the safe category. Not a single neighborhood scored C, D, or F. That kind of across-the-board consistency is worth paying attention to, especially for anyone evaluating the area for the first time.

Neighborhood-by-Neighborhood Breakdown

The safest corners of Browns Mills include Fort Dix, which leads the pack with an A+ grade and a median household income of $74,891, and Country Lake Estates, which earned an A with a notably higher median income of $98,686 among its 3,421 residents. Presidential Lake Estates also holds an A grade and posts the highest median income in the dataset at $111,487 across a population of 1,996. These three neighborhoods consistently perform at the top of the safety scale. On the relatively lower end — though still firmly in safe territory — Browns Mills proper and Hanover Furnace each hold an A- grade, with median incomes of $68,004 and $83,253 respectively. Browns Mills Junction rounds out the list with a B+ grade and a median income of $62,774 among its 462 residents, making it the only neighborhood outside the A tier.

Understanding the Grade Distribution

The grade distribution across Browns Mills is unusually compressed toward the top end of the scale. Five out of six neighborhoods earned an A-range grade, and the remaining neighborhood — Browns Mills Junction — still cleared the bar for a B+. There are no outliers pulling the community average down, no pockets of D or F performance dragging on the overall picture. This kind of tight clustering at the high end suggests that safety conditions are relatively uniform across the community rather than concentrated in just one or two well-resourced enclaves.

Property Crime vs. Violent Crime Patterns

In communities with Browns Mills' demographic profile — a median household income of $67,397, a poverty rate of 9.3%, and an unemployment rate of 10.9% — property crime typically accounts for the larger share of incidents compared to violent crime. The higher-crime areas identified in the data, which include Hanover Furnace, Browns Mills, Presidential Lake Estates, and Country Lake Estates, are still graded A- or A, suggesting that even in the areas with relatively more activity, incident volumes remain low. Violent crime in this community appears to be a minor contributor to the overall crime picture, while opportunistic property incidents — consistent with the area's moderate density of 734 residents per square mile — represent the more routine concern for residents.

How the Interactive Crime Map Supports Smarter Decisions

For anyone actively using the Browns Mills crime map, the practical applications are specific and immediate. Home buyers weighing a purchase in Country Lake Estates or Presidential Lake Estates can cross-reference safety grades against the area's median home value of $161,805 to assess whether the price reflects the low-risk environment. Renters — who face a median rent of $1,391 in Browns Mills — can use the map to compare neighborhood grades before signing a lease, particularly when choosing between Browns Mills proper and Browns Mills Junction. Commuters passing through Hanover Furnace or the Browns Mills Junction corridor can use time-filtered incident data to understand whether patterns shift during morning or evening hours. The map turns raw crime data into a navigable, decision-ready resource rather than an abstract statistic.