South Fayette Township, PA has a A+ safety grade (92/100) with a violent crime rate of 54 per 100,000, 85% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
South Fayette Township (18,472 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
South Fayette Township, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 85% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, South Fayette Township, PA shows violent crime at 54.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 270.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 85% 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 12.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 54.1 in 2024 (+336.4%). The highest observed value was 70.4 in 2022 and the lowest 12.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
South Fayette Township reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 18,472. 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 Fayette Township's 54.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Hempfield Township (54.5), Indiana Township (54.9), Conyngham (55.0), Colonial Regional (53.2). 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 are 16.7% of the 60 Part I offenses reported in South Fayette Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 6.7 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 54.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, South Fayette Township ranks 462 of 838 — above 376 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -18.2% 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 South Fayette 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 18,472. 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.
South Fayette Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 60 offenses; mix index 5,661).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
South Fayette 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 | 50 | 270.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 44 | 238.2 |
| Burglary | 4 | 21.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 10.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 54.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 9 | 48.7 |
| Rape | 1 | 5.4 |
| Murder | 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 · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 16,123 | 12.4 | 241.9 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 16,098 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 18,476 | 70.4 | 270.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 18,498 | 59.5 | 351.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 18,472 | 54.1 | 270.7 |
South Fayette Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind South Fayette Township's 60 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Fayette Township in population. Their populations run from 18,000 to 18,949, against 18,472 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
South Fayette Township sits at 54.1/100K violent (grade A+); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
South Fayette Township at 54.1/100K violent and 270.7/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
54.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
270.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, South Fayette Township reported 10 violent crimes and 50 property crimes, for a total of 60 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, South Fayette Township's violent crime rate decreased by 9.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23%.
The most common crime type in South Fayette Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.3% of all reported crimes (44 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: South Fayette 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 Fayette 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 Fayette Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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