Ross Township, PA has a B safety grade (72/100) with a violent crime rate of 53 per 100,000, 85% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Ross Township (32,076 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Ross Township, PA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 85% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ross Township, PA shows violent crime at 53 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,609.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 85% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 23.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 53.0 in 2024 (+130.2%). The highest observed value was 107.8 in 2023 and the lowest 23.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Ross Township reported 17 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 32,076. 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 Ross Township's 53.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cambria Township (53.0), Point Township (52.9), New Cumberland (52.9), Scott Township, Columbia County (52.9). 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 are 2.0% of the 854 Part I offenses reported in Ross Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 8.0 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
Larceny-theft is 96.2% of reported property offenses in Ross Township, against a cohort median of 85.8%. The remainder is burglary (22) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 53.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ross Township ranks 464 of 838 — above 374 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -19.9% against the cohort median of 66.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Ross Township'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 17 reported violent incidents in a population of 32,076. 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.
Ross Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (94% of 854 offenses; mix index 8,895).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Ross Township 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 837 | 2609.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 805 | 2509.7 |
| Burglary | 22 | 68.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 31.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 17 | 53 |
| Rape | 8 | 24.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 24.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 3.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 30,403 | 23 | 588.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 30,289 | 66 | 1086.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 32,854 | 45.7 | 1683.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 32,470 | 107.8 | 1897.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 32,076 | 53 | 2609.4 |
Ross Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ross Township's 854 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Ross Township in population. Their populations run from 30,633 to 33,944, against 32,076 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Ross Township sits at 53/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Ross Township at 53/100K violent and 2,609.4/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
53/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,609.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-50.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Ross Township reported 17 violent crimes and 837 property crimes, for a total of 854 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Ross Township's violent crime rate decreased by 50.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 37.5%.
The most common crime type in Ross Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 94.3% of all reported crimes (805 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Ross Township 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 Ross Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ross Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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