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.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
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.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Lower Burrell, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
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.
Across 11.3 Census sq mi, Lower Burrell logged 2.4 property and 0.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lower Burrell's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (57% of 37 offenses; mix index 4,091).
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Lower Burrell offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.3 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 | 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 Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lower Burrell's 37 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 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.
Lower Burrell sits at 86.9/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lower Burrell at 86.9/100K violent and 234.7/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
86.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
234.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Lower Burrell reported 10 violent crimes and 27 property crimes, for a total of 37 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lower Burrell's violent crime rate decreased by 41.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 60.9%.
The most common crime type in Lower Burrell is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.8% of all reported crimes (21 incidents in 2024).
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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