Kennett Square, PA has a B safety grade (71/100) with a violent crime rate of 253 per 100,000, 28% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Kennett Square is a small municipal reporter (6,731 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Kennett Square, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 28% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kennett Square, PA shows violent crime at 252.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 460.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 28% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 64.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 252.6 in 2024 (+292.7%). The highest observed value was 252.6 in 2024 and the lowest 16.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Kennett Square reported 17 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,731. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 35.4% of the 48 Part I offenses reported in Kennett Square for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 25.4 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 252.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kennett Square ranks 113 of 838 — above 725 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +286.7% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Kennett Square's 252.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hanover Township, Luzerne County (251.4), Middletown (249.2), Wesleyville (256.0), Wilkes-Barre Township (248.6). 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 Kennett Square'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 17 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,731. 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.
Across 1.1 Census sq mi, Kennett Square logged 29.1 property and 16 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kennett Square's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (56% of 48 offenses; mix index 4,349).
Violent offenses are 35% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Kennett Square offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.1 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 | 31 | 460.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 27 | 401.1 |
| Burglary | 4 | 59.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 17 | 252.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 16 | 237.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 14.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,219 | 64.3 | 611 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 6,218 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,911 | 16.9 | 321.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,196 | 96.8 | 597.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,731 | 252.6 | 460.6 |
Kennett Square Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kennett Square's 48 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Kennett Square in population. Their populations run from 6,706 to 6,784, against 6,731 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Kennett Square sits at 252.6/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Kennett Square reported 17 violent crimes and 31 property crimes, for a total of 48 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kennett Square's violent crime rate increased by 161%, and the property crime rate decreased by 22.9%.
The most common crime type in Kennett Square is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.3% of all reported crimes (27 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Kennett Square 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 Kennett Square's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kennett Square, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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