Abington Township, Montgomery County, PA has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 125 per 100,000, 65% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Abington Township, Montgomery County, PA Crime Rate & Safety
At 58,429 residents, Abington Township, Montgomery County is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against PA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Abington Township, Montgomery County, PA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 65% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Abington Township, Montgomery County, PA shows violent crime at 124.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,067.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 65% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
124.9/100K violent
2067.5/100K property
-65% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Abington Township, Montgomery County, PA
Comparable rate records
Abington Township, Montgomery County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Abington Township, Montgomery County's 124.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sugarloaf Township, Luzerne County (125.7), Upper Merion Township (123.6), Bushkill Township (126.4), West Sadsbury Township (123.0). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Abington Township, Montgomery County sits mid-pack among comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 124.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Abington Township, Montgomery County ranks 260 of 838 — above 578 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +91.3% against the cohort median of 65.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 5.7% of the 1,281 Part I offenses reported in Abington Township, Montgomery County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 4.3 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Abington Township, Montgomery County's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Abington Township, Montgomery County's 2024 municipal footprint
Abington Township, Montgomery County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (86% of 1,281 offenses; mix index 7,506).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Abington Township, Montgomery County offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property offenses lead Abington Township, Montgomery County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
Property Crime
1,208
2067.5
1457.1
Larceny-Theft
1,106
1892.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
74
126.6
-
Burglary
28
47.9
-
Arson
4
6.8
-
Violent Crime
73
124.9
249.5
Aggravated Assault
36
61.6
-
Robbery
29
49.6
-
Rape
8
13.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
How Abington Township, Montgomery County sits among PA peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
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Abington Township, Montgomery County's closest PA violent-rate matches
Abington Township, Montgomery County sits at 124.9/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Out-of-state peers for Abington Township, Montgomery County
Abington Township, Montgomery County at 124.9/100K violent and 2,067.5/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
Abington Township, Montgomery County violent rate vs peers
More about Abington Township, Montgomery County's 2024 record
How many crimes were reported in Abington Township, Montgomery County?
In 2024, Abington Township, Montgomery County reported 73 violent crimes and 1,208 property crimes, for a total of 1,281 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Abington Township, Montgomery County?
The most common crime type in Abington Township, Montgomery County is larceny-theft, accounting for 86.3% of all reported crimes (1,106 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Abington Township, Montgomery County's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Abington Township, Montgomery County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.