Butler Township, Butler County, PA has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 120 per 100,000, 66% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Butler Township, Butler County (16,682 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Butler Township, Butler County, PA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 66% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Butler Township, Butler County, PA shows violent crime at 119.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,474.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 66% below the U.S. average. 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
Butler Township, Butler County reported 20 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 16,682. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Butler Township, Butler County's 119.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Franklin (118.8), Southern Armstrong Regional (118.3), Oil City (118.2), Newberry Township (117.8). 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
At 119.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Butler Township, Butler County ranks 268 of 838 — above 570 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +83.6% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 94.7% of reported property offenses in Butler Township, Butler County, against a cohort median of 85.8%. The remainder is burglary (10) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Butler Township, Butler 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 20 reported violent incidents in a population of 16,682. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Butler Township, Butler County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (88% of 266 offenses; mix index 7,726).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Butler Township, Butler 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 | 246 | 1474.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 233 | 1396.7 |
| Burglary | 10 | 59.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 18 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 20 | 119.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 16 | 95.9 |
| Rape | 3 | 18 |
| Murder | 1 | 6 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Butler Township, Butler County in population. Their populations run from 16,565 to 17,077, against 16,682 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Butler Township, Butler County sits at 119.9/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Butler Township, Butler County at 119.9/100K violent and 1,474.6/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
119.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,474.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Butler Township, Butler County reported 20 violent crimes and 246 property crimes, for a total of 266 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Butler Township, Butler County is larceny-theft, accounting for 87.6% of all reported crimes (233 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Butler Township, Butler County figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Butler Township, Butler County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Butler Township, Butler County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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