Haverford Township, PA has a A safety grade (89/100) with a violent crime rate of 22 per 100,000, 94% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 50,544 residents, Haverford Township is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against PA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Haverford Township, PA is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 94% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Haverford Township, PA shows violent crime at 21.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,026.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 94% 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
Haverford Township reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 50,544. 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 Haverford Township's 21.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Conneaut Lake Regional (21.9), Carroll Valley (21.9), Scott Township, Lackawanna County (21.5), Chartiers Township (21.4). 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 21.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Haverford Township ranks 599 of 838 — above 239 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -67.1% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 2.1% of the 530 Part I offenses reported in Haverford Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 7.9 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
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 18.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 21.8 in 2024 (+20.0%). The highest observed value was 26.0 in 2022 and the lowest 17.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Haverford 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.
Based on 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 50,544. 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 large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Haverford Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (88% of 530 offenses; mix index 7,764).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Haverford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 519 | 1026.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 465 | 920 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 40 | 79.1 |
| Burglary | 14 | 27.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 11 | 21.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 15.8 |
| Robbery | 2 | 4 |
| Rape | 1 | 2 |
| Murder | 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 · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 49,638 | 18.1 | 1001.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 49,648 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 50,016 | 26 | 357.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 50,505 | 17.8 | 928.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 50,544 | 21.8 | 1026.8 |
Haverford Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Haverford Township's 530 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 Haverford Township in population. Their populations run from 44,254 to 58,429, against 50,544 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Haverford Township sits at 21.8/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Haverford Township at 21.8/100K violent and 1,026.8/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
21.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,026.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Haverford Township reported 11 violent crimes and 519 property crimes, for a total of 530 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Haverford Township's violent crime rate increased by 22.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 10.6%.
The most common crime type in Haverford Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 87.7% of all reported crimes (465 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Haverford Township's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Haverford Township's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Haverford Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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