Delaware Water Gap, PA has a A+ safety grade (100/100) with a violent crime rate of 0 per 100,000, .
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Delaware Water Gap's UCR row covers a small municipal population (663). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to PA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Delaware Water Gap, 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, Delaware Water Gap, PA shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 0 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
Delaware Water Gap reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 663. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 3585.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024 (-100.0%). The highest observed value was 3585.7 in 2020 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Delaware Water Gap 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 Delaware Water Gap's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Adams Township, Cambria County (0.0), Alburtis (0.0), Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County (0.0), Avoca (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.
Property counts dominate Delaware Water Gap'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 663. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 1.9 Census sq mi, Delaware Water Gap logged 0 property and 0 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.9 sq mi); 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Larceny-Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 0 | 0 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 753 | 3585.7 | 1460.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 755 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 687 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 675 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 663 | 0 | 0 |
Delaware Water Gap Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Delaware Water Gap's 0 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Delaware Water Gap in population. Their populations run from 609 to 696, against 663 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Delaware Water Gap sits at 0/100K violent (grade A+); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Delaware Water Gap reported 0 violent crimes and 0 property crimes, for a total of 0 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Delaware Water Gap's violent crime rate data is unavailable.
Micro-municipal read: Delaware Water Gap's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Delaware Water Gap's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Delaware Water Gap, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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