Richland Township, Cambria County, PA has a B safety grade (65/100) with a violent crime rate of 101 per 100,000, 71% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Richland Township, Cambria County, PA Crime Rate & Safety
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Richland Township, Cambria County (11,912 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Richland Township, Cambria County, PA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 71% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Richland Township, Cambria County, PA shows violent crime at 100.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,871.1 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
100.7/100K violent
2871.1/100K property
-71% vs U.S.
The verdict
Richland Township, Cambria County earns a B safety grade: violent crime runs 71% below the U.S. average, placing it safer than most U.S. cities.
B
PlainCrime safety grade
-71%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
71st
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,871.1
property crimes per 100K
Based on 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,912. 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.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Richland Township, Cambria County, PA
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Richland Township, Cambria County reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,912. 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
Richland Township, Cambria County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Richland Township, Cambria County's 100.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Springfield Township, Delaware County (100.8), Hellam Township (100.5), Valley Township (100.4), Carbondale (101.3). 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 3.4% of the 354 Part I offenses reported in Richland Township, Cambria County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 6.6 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
Richland Township, Cambria County sits mid-pack among comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 100.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Richland Township, Cambria County ranks 311 of 838 — above 527 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +54.2% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 97.1% of reported property offenses in Richland Township, Cambria County, against a cohort median of 85.8%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Richland Township, Cambria 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 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,912. 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.
Property offenses lead Richland Township, Cambria County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
vs US avg
Property Crime
342
2871.1
1457.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
332
2787.1
-
-
Burglary
7
58.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
3
25.2
-
-
Arson
1
8.4
-
-
Violent Crime
12
100.7
249.5
352
Aggravated Assault
6
50.4
-
-
Rape
5
42
-
-
Robbery
1
8.4
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
How Richland Township, Cambria 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 Richland Township, Cambria County in population. Their populations run from 11,696 to 12,112, against 11,912 here. Or use our
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These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Richland Township, Cambria County's 100.7/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
What is the crime rate in Richland Township, Cambria County, PA? ▼
Richland Township, Cambria County has a violent crime rate of 100.7 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2871.1 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Richland Township, Cambria County, PA safe? ▼
Richland Township, Cambria County receives a safety grade of B (Above Average), with a safety score of 65/100. The violent crime rate is 71% below the national average and 60% below the Pennsylvania average.
What is the population of Richland Township, Cambria County, PA? ▼
The reporting population for Richland Township, Cambria County is 11,912 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Richland Township, Cambria County? ▼
In 2024, Richland Township, Cambria County reported 12 violent crimes and 342 property crimes, for a total of 354 reported offenses.
How do Richland Township, Cambria County's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Richland Township, Cambria County recorded about one reported offense per 34 residents and one reported violent offense per 993 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
What is the most common crime in Richland Township, Cambria County? ▼
The most common crime type in Richland Township, Cambria County is larceny-theft, accounting for 93.8% of all reported crimes (332 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Richland Township, Cambria 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 Richland Township, Cambria 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 Richland Township, Cambria County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.