Lower Heidelberg Township, PA has a A+ safety grade (97/100) with a violent crime rate of 15 per 100,000, 96% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lower Heidelberg Township is a small municipal reporter (6,784 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Lower Heidelberg Township, PA is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 96% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lower Heidelberg Township, PA shows violent crime at 14.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 221.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 96% 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 Heidelberg Township reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,784. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 111.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 14.7 in 2024 (-86.8%). The highest observed value was 111.8 in 2020 and the lowest 14.7 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lower Heidelberg Township's 14.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Whitpain Township (14.7), Franconia Township (14.8), Penn Township, Westmoreland County (14.5), Findlay Township (15.2). 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 14.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lower Heidelberg Township ranks 626 of 838 — above 212 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -77.7% 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 6.3% of the 16 Part I offenses reported in Lower Heidelberg Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 3.8 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.
Property counts dominate Lower Heidelberg 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 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,784. 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.
Lower Heidelberg Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 16 offenses; mix index 5,859).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lower Heidelberg 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 | 15 | 221.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 12 | 176.9 |
| Burglary | 2 | 29.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 14.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 14.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 14.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 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 | 6,259 | 111.8 | 335.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 6,290 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,404 | 109.3 | 1951.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,613 | 60.5 | 302.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,784 | 14.7 | 221.1 |
Lower Heidelberg Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lower Heidelberg Township's 16 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 Heidelberg Township in population. Their populations run from 6,745 to 6,827, against 6,784 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Lower Heidelberg Township reported 1 violent crimes and 15 property crimes, for a total of 16 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lower Heidelberg Township's violent crime rate decreased by 75.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.9%.
The most common crime type in Lower Heidelberg Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.0% of all reported crimes (12 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lower Heidelberg 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 Lower Heidelberg Township's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lower Heidelberg Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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