Sandy Township, PA has a A safety grade (84/100) with a violent crime rate of 87 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Sandy Township (11,554 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 2026-09-05
Sandy Township, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 75% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sandy Township, PA shows violent crime at 86.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 787.6 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.
Small-count caution
Sandy Township reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,554. 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 Sandy Township's 86.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sadsbury Township, Chester County (86.3), North Middleton Township (86.3), 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 86.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sandy Township ranks 350 of 838 — above 488 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +32.5% 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 Sandy 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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,554. 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.
Sandy Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 101 offenses; mix index 6,721).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Sandy 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 | 91 | 787.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 82 | 709.7 |
| Burglary | 8 | 69.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 8.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 8.7 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 86.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 69.2 |
| Rape | 1 | 8.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 8.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Sandy Township in population. Their populations run from 11,380 to 11,832, against 11,554 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sandy Township sits at 86.6/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Sandy Township at 86.6/100K violent and 787.6/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
86.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
787.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Sandy Township reported 10 violent crimes and 91 property crimes, for a total of 101 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Sandy Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.2% of all reported crimes (82 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Sandy 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 Sandy Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sandy Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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