Sadsbury Township, Chester County, PA has a A safety grade (88/100) with a violent crime rate of 86 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.

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Sadsbury Township, Chester County, PA Crime Rate & Safety

Sadsbury Township, Chester County is a small municipal reporter (4,636 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.

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Safety grade
Safe
409.8
Property / 100K
86.3
Violent / 100K
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Population
-76%
property vs U.S.

Sadsbury Township, Chester County, PA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 75% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sadsbury Township, Chester County, PA shows violent crime at 86.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 409.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% 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.

  • A safety grade
  • 86.3/100K violent
  • 409.8/100K property
  • -75% vs U.S.

The verdict

Sadsbury Township, Chester County earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 75% below the U.S. average, placing it safer than most U.S. cities.

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PlainCrime safety grade
-75%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
75th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
409.8
property crimes per 100K

Based on 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,636. 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 Sadsbury Township, Chester County, PA

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Sadsbury Township, Chester County reported 4 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,636. 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

Sadsbury Township, Chester County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sadsbury Township, Chester County's 86.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are North Middleton Township (86.3), Sandy Township (86.6), Lower Burrell (86.9), Chippewa Township (87.2). 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 17.4% of the 23 Part I offenses reported in Sadsbury Township, Chester County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 7.4 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

Sadsbury Township, Chester County sits mid-pack among comparable Pennsylvania cities

At 86.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sadsbury Township, Chester County ranks 351 of 838 — above 487 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +32.1% 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 counts dominate Sadsbury Township, Chester 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 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,636. 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.

Property offenses lead Sadsbury Township, Chester County's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 19 409.8
Larceny-Theft 16 345.1
Motor Vehicle Theft 2 43.1
Burglary 1 21.6
Arson 0 0
Violent Crime 4 86.3
Aggravated Assault 3 64.7
Rape 1 21.6
Murder 0 0
Robbery 0 0

How Sadsbury Township, Chester County sits among PA peers

Sadsbury Township, Chester County vs. similar-size PA cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Sadsbury Township, Chester County vs. similar-size PA cities, violent vs. property crime 0 907 Violent crime per 100K → 19 1,848 Property crime per 100K → Sadsbury Townsh… SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME Safety grade A / B C D / F
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 Sadsbury Township, Chester County in population. Their populations run from 4,598 to 4,649, against 4,636 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Similar violent-crime rates in Pennsylvania

These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Sadsbury Township, Chester County's 86.3/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the crime rate in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, PA?
Sadsbury Township, Chester County has a violent crime rate of 86.3 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 409.8 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Sadsbury Township, Chester County, PA safe?
Sadsbury Township, Chester County receives a safety grade of A (Safe), with a safety score of 88/100. The violent crime rate is 75% below the national average and 65% below the Pennsylvania average.
What is the population of Sadsbury Township, Chester County, PA?
The reporting population for Sadsbury Township, Chester County is 4,636 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Sadsbury Township, Chester County?
In 2024, Sadsbury Township, Chester County reported 4 violent crimes and 19 property crimes, for a total of 23 reported offenses.
How do Sadsbury Township, Chester County's reported offenses compare with its population?
In 2024, Sadsbury Township, Chester County recorded about one reported offense per 202 residents and one reported violent offense per 1159 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 Sadsbury Township, Chester County?
The most common crime type in Sadsbury Township, Chester County is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.6% of all reported crimes (16 incidents in 2024).

Small-city read: Sadsbury Township, Chester County 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.

Federal sources for this small-city row

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sadsbury Township, Chester County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.

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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Sadsbury Township, Chester County is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (4,636 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.