Plymouth Township, Montgomery County, PA has a B safety grade (60/100) with a violent crime rate of 103 per 100,000, 71% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County, PA Crime Rate & Safety
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County (18,484 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 71% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Plymouth Township, Montgomery County, PA shows violent crime at 102.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 6,108 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% 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
102.8/100K violent
6108/100K property
-71% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Plymouth Township, Montgomery County, PA
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County reported 19 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 18,484. 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
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Plymouth Township, Montgomery County's 102.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Forest Hills (102.6), North Cornwall Township (102.4), Girard (102.4), Harrison Township (103.4). 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 1.7% of the 1,148 Part I offenses reported in Plymouth Township, Montgomery County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 8.3 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.
Position in the state cohort
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County sits mid-pack among comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 102.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Plymouth Township, Montgomery County ranks 305 of 838 — above 533 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +57.4% 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 94.2% of reported property offenses in Plymouth Township, Montgomery County, against a cohort median of 85.8%. The remainder is burglary (38) and motor vehicle theft (28). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Plymouth Township, Montgomery 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 19 reported violent incidents in a population of 18,484. 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.
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County's 2024 municipal footprint
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (93% of 1,148 offenses; mix index 8,592).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Plymouth Township, Montgomery 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.
Property offenses lead Plymouth Township, Montgomery County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,129
6108
1457.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,063
5750.9
-
-
Burglary
38
205.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
28
151.5
-
-
Arson
2
10.8
-
-
Violent Crime
19
102.8
249.5
352
Aggravated Assault
8
43.3
-
-
Robbery
6
32.5
-
-
Rape
5
27.1
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
How Plymouth Township, Montgomery County sits among PA peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County: 103 violent, 6108 property per 100,000 (grade B)
McKeesport: 1694 violent, 2565 property per 100,000 (grade F)
South Fayette Township: 54 violent, 271 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Penn Township, York County: 272 violent, 1016 property per 100,000 (grade B)
West Mifflin: 380 violent, 2641 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Colonial Regional: 53 violent, 2135 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Wyoming Area Regional: 127 violent, 521 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ferguson Township: 69 violent, 449 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Doylestown Township: 28 violent, 578 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Plymouth Township, Montgomery County in population. Their populations run from 18,000 to 18,949, against 18,484 here. Or use our
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Plymouth Township, Montgomery County's closest PA violent-rate matches
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County sits at 102.8/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Out-of-state peers for Plymouth Township, Montgomery County
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County at 102.8/100K violent and 6,108/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
Plymouth Township, Montgomery County violent rate vs peers
More about Plymouth Township, Montgomery County's 2024 record
How many crimes were reported in Plymouth Township, Montgomery County?
In 2024, Plymouth Township, Montgomery County reported 19 violent crimes and 1,129 property crimes, for a total of 1,148 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Plymouth Township, Montgomery County?
The most common crime type in Plymouth Township, Montgomery County is larceny-theft, accounting for 92.6% of all reported crimes (1,063 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Plymouth Township, Montgomery 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 Plymouth Township, Montgomery County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Federal sources for this mid-size row
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Summary Reporting System + National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). FBI UCR Program
FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE), current-vintage UCR/NIBRS data source. FBI Crime Data Explorer
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), National Crime Victimization Survey, contextual statistics. Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau ACS, population denominators for rate calculations. U.S. Census Bureau ACS
CDC WONDER, injury and mortality reference for homicide rate context. CDC WONDER
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Plymouth Township, Montgomery County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.