Constantly looking over your shoulder in New Jersey's largest historic district?

Walking a little faster when visiting the county seat of Gloucester County?

Checking your car door locks twice before boarding a PATCO train in one Camden County municipality?

Well, you should be.

At least according to an online real estate company's survey published Wednesday that names Bridgeton, Woodbury and Lindenwold among the top 10 most dangerous places in New Jersey.

"This ranking is not a critique of police practices or effectiveness. It is simply an analysis of where crimes occurred," according to the Movoto Real Estate survey, which also names Atlantic City and Asbury Park, along with a handful of other North Jersey destinations.

Attempts to reach members of Movoto were not immediately successful, but the author of the survey clearly explained how they came to their findings.

Using the FBI's 2013 Uniform Crime Report, the real estate company looked at places with a population of 10,000 or more and divided specific crime into four categories: murder, violent crime, property crime and total crime.

"Since there are some crimes that are more heinous than others, we weighted violent crimes, murders, and property crimes to make up 30 percent of the overall score, and total crimes to make up just 10 percent," according to the survey.

Asbury Park, Atlantic City and Newark rounded out the top three, respectively. The high rate of crime per person was noted for each.

Worth noting, those in Atlantic City had a 1 in 11 chance of becoming a victim of a crime, the survey states. The people of Millville -- which ranked 15th in the survey -- had a 1 in 12 chance. For some perspective, the roughly 10,400 residents of Chatham Township, Morris County, had a 1 in 254 chance.

A New Jersey Advance Media survey of the FBI's 2013 report found Newark to have the largest amount of violent crimes, murders, robberies and burglaries.

"These rough rankings provide no insight into the numerous variables that mold crime in a particular town," the FBI report noted. "Consequently, they lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting communities and their residents," it continued.

Bridgeton, which ranked fourth in the Movoto survey, had a total of 1,526 crimes and a population of 25,280. Of the total number of crimes, 1,186 were property and 340 were violent, including two murders.

"With such a low total number of crimes, residents had just a 1 in 17 chance of being the victim of a crime," the survey says.

At No. 6 and with a population of just over 10,000, Woodbury had the 22nd most violent crimes of all the destinations in the survey, but had the fourth most property crimes and fifth most crimes per person. While the Movoto study didn't note specific figures for Woodbury, the FBI report includes 45 instances of violent crime, one murder and 507 reports of property crime.

In the No. 10 spot, Lindenwold, with a population of 17,863, had a total of 655 crimes, which was the 19th most per person. Expanding on the numbers, 533 property crimes and 122 violent crimes, as well as two murders, were reported.

Beyond the top 10, the survey of 50 locations lists Pine Hill at 16, Vineland at 19, Deptford at 21, Gloucester Township at 33 and Cherry Hill at 40.

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Greg Adomaitis may be reached at gadomaitis@southjerseymedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregAdomaitis. Find the South Jersey Times on Facebook.