German Township, PA has a A safety grade (84/100) with a violent crime rate of 154 per 100,000, 56% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
German Township is a small municipal reporter (8,421 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
German Township, PA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 56% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, German Township, PA shows violent crime at 154.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 71.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 68.4% of the 19 Part I offenses reported in German Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 58.4 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.
Small-count caution
German Township reported 13 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,421. 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 German Township's 154.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Newton (154.6), Springdale (154.7), Catasauqua (154.9), Stroud Area Regional (155.1). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 294.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 154.4 in 2024 (-47.7%). The highest observed value was 294.9 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 154.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, German Township ranks 206 of 838 — above 632 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +136.3% 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.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on German Township's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 13 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,421. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
German Township's 2024 book concentrates in aggravated assault (68% of 19 offenses; mix index 5,402).
Violent offenses are 68% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
German Township 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 13 | 154.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 13 | 154.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 6 | 71.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 5 | 59.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 11.9 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,747 | 294.9 | 716.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 4,701 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,546 | 154 | 461.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,567 | 175.1 | 58.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,421 | 154.4 | 71.3 |
German Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind German Township's 19 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to German Township in population. Their populations run from 8,349 to 8,534, against 8,421 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, German Township reported 13 violent crimes and 6 property crimes, for a total of 19 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, German Township's violent crime rate decreased by 11.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 22.1%.
The most common crime type in German Township is aggravated assault, accounting for 68.4% of all reported crimes (13 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: German Township is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how German Township's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 German Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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