Millburn recorded two violent crimes in 2025, far below state and national averages, according to new FBI data.

The figure comes from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data released Aug. 24. With an estimated population of 22,874, Millburn's two incidents translate to a rate of 8.74 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, Patch reported. The FBI defines violent crime as homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

The state and national rates are far higher.

New Jersey logged 18,508 violent crimes in 2025, down from 20,876 the year before, according to a statewide Patch analysis of the FBI figures. The state's rate fell 11.8 percent, dropping from 219.7 per 100,000 in 2024 to 193.8 per 100,000 in 2025.

Nationally, the picture is similar. The FBI said the U.S. violent crime rate fell 9.3 percent in 2025, the largest single-year decline since the bureau began tracking crime trends in 1936. The national rate landed at 327.6 per 100,000, down from 362.9 the prior year. The estimated murder rate dropped to 4.1 per 100,000, matching levels last seen in 1955 and 1956.

FBI Director Kash Patel called the drop historic. "You're talking rape, robbery, assault… all down double-digits across America," Patel said in an Aug. 19 video message accompanying the data release.

The decline is part of a decades-long trend. New Jersey's violent crime rate peaked in 1990 at 647.6 per 100,000, when the state saw 50,057 violent crimes. It has fallen roughly 70 percent since then. The national rate peaked in 1991 at 758.2 per 100,000.

The FBI's 2025 statistics were compiled from data submitted by more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies covering nearly 97 percent of the U.S. population. Millburn's year-by-year breakdown is available on the FBI's Crime Data Explorer.