Shaler Township, PA has a A+ safety grade (90/100) with a violent crime rate of 49 per 100,000, 86% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Shaler Township (26,801 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
Shaler Township, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 86% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Shaler Township, PA shows violent crime at 48.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 555.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 86% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 18.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 48.5 in 2024 (+167.9%). The highest observed value was 48.5 in 2024 and the lowest 18.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Shaler Township reported 13 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 26,801. 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 Shaler Township's 48.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bethel Township, Berks County (48.7), Brookhaven (48.2), East Brandywine Township (48.0), Armagh Township (49.3). 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 48.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Shaler Township ranks 485 of 838 — above 353 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -26.7% 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 Shaler 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 13 reported violent incidents in a population of 26,801. 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.
Shaler Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 162 offenses; mix index 6,560).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Shaler 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 | 149 | 555.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 130 | 485.1 |
| Burglary | 15 | 56 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 14.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.7 |
| Violent Crime | 13 | 48.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 29.8 |
| Rape | 3 | 11.2 |
| Murder | 1 | 3.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 3.7 |
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 | 27,612 | 18.1 | 217.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 27,412 | 40.1 | 769.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 27,427 | 29.2 | 634.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 27,122 | 33.2 | 508.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 26,801 | 48.5 | 555.9 |
Shaler Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Shaler Township's 162 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 Shaler Township in population. Their populations run from 26,241 to 27,382, against 26,801 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Shaler Township sits at 48.5/100K violent (grade A+); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Shaler Township at 48.5/100K violent and 555.9/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
48.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
555.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Shaler Township reported 13 violent crimes and 149 property crimes, for a total of 162 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Shaler Township's violent crime rate increased by 46.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 9.3%.
The most common crime type in Shaler Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.2% of all reported crimes (130 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Shaler 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 Shaler Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Shaler Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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