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 · mid-size city
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.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Fairview Township, York County, PA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
Small-count caution
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
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
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 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.
Fairview Township, York County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 144 offenses; mix index 4,913).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Fairview Township, York 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 | 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 |
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.
Fairview Township, York County sits at 157.7/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Fairview Township, York County at 157.7/100K violent and 653.4/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
157.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
653.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Fairview Township, York County reported 28 violent crimes and 116 property crimes, for a total of 144 reported offenses.
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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Fairview Township, York County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
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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