Scott Township, Allegheny County, PA has a A safety grade (84/100) with a violent crime rate of 81 per 100,000, 77% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Scott Township, Allegheny County (17,233 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
Scott Township, Allegheny County, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 77% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Scott Township, Allegheny County, PA shows violent crime at 81.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 847.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 77% 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
Scott Township, Allegheny County reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 17,233. 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 Scott Township, Allegheny County's 81.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Easttown Township (81.3), Uwchlan Township (81.4), Telford (81.9), Hawley (81.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 81.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Scott Township, Allegheny County ranks 372 of 838 — above 466 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +24.4% 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 Scott Township, Allegheny 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 14 reported violent incidents in a population of 17,233. 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.
Scott Township, Allegheny County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 160 offenses; mix index 6,059).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Scott Township, Allegheny County 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 | 146 | 847.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 123 | 713.7 |
| Burglary | 12 | 69.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 63.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 5.8 |
| Violent Crime | 14 | 81.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 58 |
| Rape | 4 | 23.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Scott Township, Allegheny County in population. Their populations run from 16,747 to 17,363, against 17,233 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Scott Township, Allegheny County sits at 81.2/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Scott Township, Allegheny County at 81.2/100K violent and 847.2/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
81.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
847.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Scott Township, Allegheny County reported 14 violent crimes and 146 property crimes, for a total of 160 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Scott Township, Allegheny County is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.9% of all reported crimes (123 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Scott Township, Allegheny 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 Scott Township, Allegheny County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Scott Township, Allegheny County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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