Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderGloucester 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.
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.
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.
- Gloucester City (this dept) 86
- High Orion Township, MI 86
- Near Peterson Air Forc…, CO 86
- Near Graham County Vol…, NC 86
- Near Town of Clayton, NC 86
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Gloucester City, NJ
- County
- Camden County
- 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.
- 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).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 86 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every NJ department.