Lower Burrell, PA has a A safety grade (89/100) with a violent crime rate of 87 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
Lower Burrell (11,502 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Lower Burrell, PA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 75% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lower Burrell, PA shows violent crime at 86.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 234.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% 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.
The verdict
Lower Burrell earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 75% below the U.S. average, placing it safer than most U.S. cities.
Based on 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,502. 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-count caution
Lower Burrell reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,502. 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 Lower Burrell's 86.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Chippewa Township (87.2), Coudersport (87.2), Sandy Township (86.6), Sadsbury Township, Chester County (86.3). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 27.0% of the 37 Part I offenses reported in Lower Burrell for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 17.0 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 109.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 86.9 in 2024 (-20.3%). The highest observed value was 155.5 in 2022 and the lowest 86.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 86.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lower Burrell ranks 349 of 838 — above 489 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +33.1% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 77.8% of reported property offenses in Lower Burrell, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (3) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Lower Burrell'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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,502. 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 27 | 234.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 21 | 182.6 |
| Burglary | 3 | 26.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 26.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 8.7 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 86.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 86.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 11,006 | 109 | 717.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 10,924 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,576 | 155.5 | 717 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,508 | 147.7 | 599.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,502 | 86.9 | 234.7 |
Lower Burrell's crime figures on this page originate from Lower Burrell Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Lower Burrell in population. Their populations run from 11,231 to 11,756, against 11,502 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Lower Burrell's 86.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: Lower Burrell 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 Lower Burrell's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lower Burrell, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Lower Burrell is scored in the mid-size municipal band (11,502 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.