Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Gloucester City Fire Department

Gloucester City, NJ · Camden County. Gloucester City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 86 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

86
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Gloucester City Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the New Jersey average.

Top 6%
national personnel size
+139%
vs. New Jersey average
3
stations

National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
46/100
Gloucester City Fire Department

A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.

Staffing capacity B
28.7 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness D
1 vehicles per station (national median 2)
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
86 personnel · 3 stations

Gloucester City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Gloucester City, NJ (Camden County), with 3 stations and 86 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,262 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #1,262 of 22,440
  • NJ personnel rank #42 of 487
  • 3.49 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 32 other listed departments in Camden County

Gloucester City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

86 Top 6% higher than 94% of 22,440 departments

Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel

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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06

Dispatch plate

Sheet 04051 · Gloucester City Fire Department, NJ 86 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 86
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #1,262
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Peterson Air Forc…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Peterson Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod, CO (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every NJ department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Gloucester City, NJ
Ambulances
2
FDID
04051

Staffing vs the New Jersey average

How Gloucester City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #42 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,262 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 139% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
70
NJ departments
999

County roster fringe

Gloucester City Fire Department is 3.8% of Camden County roster mass

The county lists 57 departments totaling 2,280 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 86% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

3.49 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 86 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Peterson Air Force Base Fire Department-Dod, CO (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide career peers near 86 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.