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Bernards Township made the list as the 5th safest town in America, according to Safewise. (Shutterstock)
BASKING RIDGE, NJ How safe are you in Basking Ridge? According to a new study done by Safewise, very safe, as the township was named the fifth safest city in America.
Bernards Township, which boasts a population of 27,228 with a median income of $126,667 earned top marks with a 0.0 violent crime rate and a 3.05 property crime rate. Safewise uses a metric of rate per thousand.
For the purposes of this report, the terms safest and dangerous refer explicitly to crime rates as calculated from FBI crime data no other characterization of any community is implied or intended, officials said.