Cheltenham Township, PA has a C safety grade (50/100) with a violent crime rate of 201 per 100,000, 43% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Cheltenham Township, PA Crime Rate & Safety
Cheltenham Township (38,819 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Cheltenham Township, PA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 43% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cheltenham Township, PA shows violent crime at 200.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,922.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 43% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
200.9/100K violent
4922.8/100K property
-43% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cheltenham Township, PA
Comparable rate records
Cheltenham Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cheltenham Township's 200.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Donora (200.9), Eastern Adams Regional (200.9), Cumberland Township, Greene County (200.8), Edwardsville (202.6). 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
Cheltenham Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 200.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cheltenham Township ranks 147 of 838 — above 691 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +207.6% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 3.9% of the 1,989 Part I offenses reported in Cheltenham Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 6.1 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 172.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 200.9 in 2024 (+16.7%). The highest observed value was 245.6 in 2023 and the lowest 8.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Cheltenham Township'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Cheltenham Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Cheltenham Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (85% of 1,989 offenses; mix index 7,270).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-18.2%
245.6 → 200.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
+5.8%
4654.4 → 4922.8/100K
Property offenses lead Cheltenham Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,911
4922.8
1457.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,685
4340.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
179
461.1
-
-
Burglary
47
121.1
-
-
Arson
8
20.6
-
-
Violent Crime
78
200.9
249.5
352
Aggravated Assault
38
97.9
-
-
Robbery
34
87.6
-
-
Rape
6
15.5
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Cheltenham Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Cheltenham Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Cheltenham Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Cheltenham Township Summary Reporting (SRS)
Cheltenham Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cheltenham Township's 1,989 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
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How many crimes were reported in Cheltenham Township?
In 2024, Cheltenham Township reported 78 violent crimes and 1,911 property crimes, for a total of 1,989 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Cheltenham Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Cheltenham Township's violent crime rate decreased by 18.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.8%.
What is the most common crime in Cheltenham Township?
The most common crime type in Cheltenham Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 84.7% of all reported crimes (1,685 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Cheltenham Township 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cheltenham Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.