Adams Township, Cambria County, PA has a A+ safety grade (99/100) with a violent crime rate of 0 per 100,000, .
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Adams Township, Cambria County is a small municipal reporter (5,625 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Adams Township, Cambria County, PA is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Adams Township, Cambria County, PA shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 124.4 per 100,000. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Adams Township, Cambria County reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,625. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 14.3% of reported property offenses in Adams Township, Cambria County, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (3) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Adams Township, Cambria County ranks 641 of 838 — above 0 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -100.0% against the cohort median of 66.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Adams Township, Cambria County's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Alburtis (0.0), Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County (0.0), Avoca (0.0), Avonmore Borough (0.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 0.0% of the 7 Part I offenses reported in Adams Township, Cambria County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 10.0 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 Adams Township, Cambria 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.
Based on 0 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,625. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Adams Township, Cambria County leans on burglary at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,878.
Violent offenses are only 0% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Adams Township, Cambria 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 7 | 124.4 |
| Burglary | 3 | 53.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 53.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1 | 17.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 0 | 0 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Adams Township, Cambria County in population. Their populations run from 5,563 to 5,670, against 5,625 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Adams Township, Cambria County reported 0 violent crimes and 7 property crimes, for a total of 7 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Adams Township, Cambria County is burglary, accounting for 42.9% of all reported crimes (3 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Adams Township, Cambria County is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Adams Township, Cambria County's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Adams Township, Cambria County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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