South Abington Township, PA has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 135 per 100,000, 62% below the national average.
South Abington Township (12,573 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
South Abington Township, PA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 62% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, South Abington Township, PA shows violent crime at 135.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 429.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 62% 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.
The verdict
South Abington Township earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 62% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
Based on 17 reported violent incidents in a population of 12,573. 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-count caution
South Abington Township reported 17 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 12,573. 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 South Abington Township's 135.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Waynesboro (135.4), Lansdowne (135.5), North Versailles Township (135.6), Cresson (135.7). 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 23.9% of the 71 Part I offenses reported in South Abington Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 13.9 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
At 135.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, South Abington Township ranks 238 of 838 — above 600 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +107.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 135.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 135.2 in 2024 (-0.0%). The highest observed value was 135.3 in 2020 and the lowest 56.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate South Abington 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 12,573. 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 54 | 429.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 48 | 381.8 |
| Burglary | 4 | 31.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 15.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 8 |
| Violent Crime | 17 | 135.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 135.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,872 | 135.3 | 541 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 11,533 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,417 | 56.4 | 298 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,479 | 104.2 | 296.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,573 | 135.2 | 429.5 |
South Abington Township's crime figures on this page originate from South Abington Township Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to South Abington Township in population. Their populations run from 12,260 to 12,755, against 12,573 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to South Abington Township's 135.2/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: South Abington 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 South Abington Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 South Abington Township, 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. South Abington Township is scored in the mid-size municipal band (12,573 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.