Penn Township, Westmoreland County, PA has a A+ safety grade (98/100) with a violent crime rate of 15 per 100,000, 96% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Penn Township, Westmoreland County (20,744 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
Penn Township, Westmoreland County, 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, Penn Township, Westmoreland County, PA shows violent crime at 14.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 28.9 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
Penn Township, Westmoreland County reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 20,744. 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 33.3% of the 9 Part I offenses reported in Penn Township, Westmoreland County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 23.3 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Penn Township, Westmoreland County's 14.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Whitpain Township (14.7), Lower Heidelberg Township (14.7), Franconia Township (14.8), Kingston Township (14.0). 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 14.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Penn Township, Westmoreland County ranks 628 of 838 — above 210 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -78.1% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 66.7% of reported property offenses in Penn Township, Westmoreland County, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Penn Township, Westmoreland County'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 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 20,744. 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.
Penn Township, Westmoreland County leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,333.
Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Penn Township, Westmoreland County 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 | 6 | 28.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 19.3 |
| Burglary | 1 | 4.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 4.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 14.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 14.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Penn Township, Westmoreland County in population. Their populations run from 20,399 to 21,044, against 20,744 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Penn Township, Westmoreland County at 14.5/100K violent and 28.9/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
14.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
28.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Penn Township, Westmoreland County reported 3 violent crimes and 6 property crimes, for a total of 9 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Penn Township, Westmoreland County is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.4% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Penn Township, Westmoreland County 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 Penn Township, Westmoreland County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Penn Township, Westmoreland County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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