Philadelphia, PA has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 909 per 100,000, 158% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
Philadelphia, PA Crime Rate & Safety
At 1,549,259 residents, Philadelphia is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against PA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Philadelphia, PA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 158% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Philadelphia, PA shows violent crime at 908.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,548.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 158% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
908.7/100K violent
4548.2/100K property
+158% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Philadelphia, PA
Position in the state cohort
Philadelphia reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 908.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Philadelphia ranks 7 of 838 — above 831 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1291.2% 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.
Share of the state cohort
Philadelphia carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 84,541 Part I offenses reported here are 44.7% of the 189,138 reported across all 838 comparable Pennsylvania cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 1,549,259 rather than as a uniform shift.
Comparable rate records
Philadelphia's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Philadelphia's 908.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mount Oliver (931.4), Uniontown (857.1), Bradford (843.3), Arnold (839.8). 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 16.7% of the 84,541 Part I offenses reported in Philadelphia for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 6.7 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 70.9% of reported property offenses in Philadelphia, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (4,942) and motor vehicle theft (15,579). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 976.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 908.7 in 2024 (-6.9%). The highest observed value was 1053.6 in 2022 and the lowest 908.7 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Philadelphia'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.
On a very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Philadelphia's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 134.3 Census sq mi, Philadelphia logged 524.6 property and 104.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Philadelphia's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 84,541 offenses; mix index 4,000).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (134.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-11.2%
5121.1 → 4548.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-8.4%
991.9 → 908.7/100K
Property offenses lead Philadelphia's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
vs US avg
Property Crime
70,463
4548.2
1457.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
49,942
3223.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
15,579
1005.6
-
-
Burglary
4,942
319
-
-
Arson
723
46.7
-
-
Violent Crime
14,078
908.7
249.5
352
Aggravated Assault
8,869
572.5
-
-
Robbery
4,233
273.2
-
-
Rape
714
46.1
-
-
Murder
262
16.9
-
-
Philadelphia Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Philadelphia property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Philadelphia Police Department
Reporting agency for Philadelphia NIBRS-participating
Philadelphia Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Philadelphia's 84,541 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Philadelphia in population. Their populations run from 75,683 to 317,177, against 1,549,259 here. Or use our
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Philadelphia at 908.7/100K violent and 4,548.2/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Philadelphia reported 14,078 violent crimes and 70,463 property crimes, for a total of 84,541 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Philadelphia?
From 2023 to 2024, Philadelphia's violent crime rate decreased by 8.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.2%.
What is the most common crime in Philadelphia?
The most common crime type in Philadelphia is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.1% of all reported crimes (49,942 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Philadelphia's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Philadelphia, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.