Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Hamilton Township Fire District

Trenton, NJ · Mercer County. Hamilton Township Fire District is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 18 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.

18
Total personnel
1
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Hamilton Township Fire District pairs modest national personnel with a headcount below the New Jersey average.

17th pct.
national personnel size
-50%
vs. New Jersey average
1
station

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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
32/100
Hamilton Township Fire District

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 D
18 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
18 personnel · 1 station

Hamilton Township Fire District is a Career (Paid) department serving Trenton, NJ (Mercer County), with 1 station and 18 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #18,531 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #18,531 of 22,440
  • NJ personnel rank #457 of 487
  • 5.56 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 17 other listed departments in Mercer County

Hamilton Township Fire District vs. the national personnel distribution

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

18 Top 83% higher than 17% 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 11013 · Hamilton Township Fire District, NJ 18 personnel · 1 station

PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 18
  • STA-1 1 station
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #18,531
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Craryville Volunt…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Craryville Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+ 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
Trenton, NJ
FDID
11013

Staffing vs the New Jersey average

How Hamilton Township Fire District's personnel count compares to the typical department in New Jersey. In-state it ranks #457 of 487 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #18,531 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 50% below the state average
Stations
1
State fire deaths/yr
70
NJ departments
999

County roster fringe

Hamilton Township Fire District is 1.6% of Mercer County roster mass

The county lists 32 departments totaling 1,160 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 66% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.56 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 18 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Craryville Volunteer Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).

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

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Lawrenceville Fire Company
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Nottingham Volunteer Fire Company
Hamilton Square · volunteer
Pennington Fire Company
Pennington · volunteer
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Nationwide career peers near 18 personnel

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