Fairview Township, York County, PA has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 158 per 100,000, 55% below the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS

Fairview Township, York County, PA Crime Rate & Safety

Fairview Township, York County (17,752 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.

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A
Safety grade
Safe
653.4
Property / 100K
157.7
Violent / 100K
18K
Population
-62%
property vs U.S.

Fairview Township, York County, PA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 55% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fairview Township, York County, PA shows violent crime at 157.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 653.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 55% 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.

  • A safety grade
  • 157.7/100K violent
  • 653.4/100K property
  • -55% vs U.S.

The verdict

Fairview Township, York County earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 55% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.

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PlainCrime safety grade
-55%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
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percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
653.4
property crimes per 100K

Based on 28 reported violent incidents in a population of 17,752. 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.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fairview Township, York County, PA

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Fairview Township, York County reported 28 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 17,752. 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

Fairview Township, York County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fairview Township, York County's 157.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Northumberland (157.2), Jefferson Hills Borough (157.1), Swoyersville (158.8), Rice Township (158.9). 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

Fairview Township, York County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities

At 157.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fairview Township, York County ranks 197 of 838 — above 641 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +141.5% 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

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 19.4% of the 144 Part I offenses reported in Fairview Township, York County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 9.4 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 Fairview Township, York 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 28 reported violent incidents in a population of 17,752. 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.

Property offenses lead Fairview Township, York County's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 116 653.4
Larceny-Theft 97 546.4
Burglary 12 67.6
Motor Vehicle Theft 7 39.4
Arson 0 0
Violent Crime 28 157.7
Aggravated Assault 24 135.2
Robbery 3 16.9
Rape 1 5.6
Murder 0 0

How Fairview Township, York County sits among PA peers

Fairview Township, York County vs. similar-size PA cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Fairview Township, York County vs. similar-size PA cities, violent vs. property crime 10 435 Violent crime per 100K → 314 1,848 Property crime per 100K → Fairview Townsh… SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages

Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania

Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Fairview Township, York County in population. Their populations run from 17,320 to 18,059, against 17,752 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Similar violent-crime rates in Pennsylvania

These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Fairview Township, York County's 157.7/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the crime rate in Fairview Township, York County, PA?
Fairview Township, York County has a violent crime rate of 157.7 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 653.4 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Fairview Township, York County, PA safe?
Fairview Township, York County receives a safety grade of A (Safe), with a safety score of 79/100. The violent crime rate is 55% below the national average and 37% below the Pennsylvania average.
What is the population of Fairview Township, York County, PA?
The reporting population for Fairview Township, York County is 17,752 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Fairview Township, York County?
In 2024, Fairview Township, York County reported 28 violent crimes and 116 property crimes, for a total of 144 reported offenses.
How do Fairview Township, York County's reported offenses compare with its population?
In 2024, Fairview Township, York County recorded about one reported offense per 123 residents and one reported violent offense per 634 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
What is the most common crime in Fairview Township, York County?
The most common crime type in Fairview Township, York County is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.4% of all reported crimes (97 incidents in 2024).

Mid-size read: Fairview Township, York 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.

Federal sources for this mid-size row

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fairview Township, York County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.

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