Ridley Park, PA has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 97 per 100,000, 72% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Ridley Park is a small municipal reporter (7,200 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Ridley Park, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 72% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ridley Park, PA shows violent crime at 97.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 625 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 72% 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
Ridley Park reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 7,200. 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ridley Park's 97.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Whitehall (96.7), Southern Chester County Regional (96.7), Leechburg (96.5), Parkesburg (96.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 60.0% of reported property offenses in Ridley Park, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (3) and motor vehicle theft (15). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 97.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ridley Park ranks 315 of 838 — above 523 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +48.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 84.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 97.2 in 2024 (+14.6%). The highest observed value was 97.2 in 2024 and the lowest 56.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 13.5% of the 52 Part I offenses reported in Ridley Park for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 3.5 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 Ridley Park'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 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 7,200. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 1.1 Census sq mi, Ridley Park logged 41.7 property and 6.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Ridley Park leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,698.
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Ridley Park offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.1 sq mi); 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 | 45 | 625 |
| Larceny-Theft | 27 | 375 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 15 | 208.3 |
| Burglary | 3 | 41.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 7 | 97.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 83.3 |
| Robbery | 1 | 13.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,070 | 84.9 | 664.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 7,072 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,088 | 56.4 | 366.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,100 | 84.5 | 605.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,200 | 97.2 | 625 |
Ridley Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ridley Park's 52 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Ridley Park in population. Their populations run from 7,136 to 7,284, against 7,200 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Ridley Park sits at 97.2/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Ridley Park reported 7 violent crimes and 45 property crimes, for a total of 52 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Ridley Park's violent crime rate increased by 15%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.2%.
The most common crime type in Ridley Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.9% of all reported crimes (27 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Ridley Park is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Ridley Park's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ridley Park, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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