Penn Township, York County, PA has a B safety grade (64/100) with a violent crime rate of 272 per 100,000, 23% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Penn Township, York County, PA Crime Rate & Safety
Penn Township, York County (18,414 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Penn Township, York County, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 23% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Penn Township, York County, PA shows violent crime at 271.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,015.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 23% 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.
B safety grade
271.5/100K violent
1015.5/100K property
-23% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Penn Township, York County, PA
Position in the state cohort
Penn Township, York County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 271.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Penn Township, York County ranks 105 of 838 — above 733 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +315.7% 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
Penn Township, York County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Penn Township, York County's 271.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Oxford (271.9), Allentown (272.1), Greensburg (268.9), Danville (267.8). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 21.1% of the 237 Part I offenses reported in Penn Township, York County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 11.1 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 Penn Township, York 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.
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, York County's 2024 municipal footprint
Penn Township, York County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 237 offenses; mix index 5,363).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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.
Property offenses lead Penn Township, York County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
187
1015.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
168
912.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
12
65.2
-
Burglary
7
38
-
Arson
2
10.9
-
Violent Crime
50
271.5
352
Aggravated Assault
40
217.2
-
Robbery
10
54.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
How Penn Township, York County sits among PA peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Penn Township, York County in population. Their populations run from 17,925 to 18,785, against 18,414 here. Or use our
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Penn Township, York County at 271.5/100K violent and 1,015.5/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
More about Penn Township, York County's 2024 record
How many crimes were reported in Penn Township, York County?
In 2024, Penn Township, York County reported 50 violent crimes and 187 property crimes, for a total of 237 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Penn Township, York County?
The most common crime type in Penn Township, York County is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.9% of all reported crimes (168 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Penn Township, York 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Penn Township, York County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.