Southern Chester County Regional, PA has a A safety grade (89/100) with a violent crime rate of 97 per 100,000, 73% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Southern Chester County Regional (15,511 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
Southern Chester County Regional, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 73% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Southern Chester County Regional, PA shows violent crime at 96.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 167.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 73% 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
Southern Chester County Regional reported 15 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 15,511. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 54.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 96.7 in 2024 (+77.0%). The highest observed value was 96.7 in 2024 and the lowest 51.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 36.6% of the 41 Part I offenses reported in Southern Chester County Regional for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 26.6 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Southern Chester County Regional's 96.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Whitehall (96.7), Leechburg (96.5), Ridley Park (97.2), Parkesburg (96.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 57.7% of reported property offenses in Southern Chester County Regional, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (9) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 96.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Southern Chester County Regional ranks 317 of 838 — above 521 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +48.1% 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 Southern Chester County Regional'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 15 reported violent incidents in a population of 15,511. 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.
Southern Chester County Regional's 8 active offense types stay diversified (mix index 2,320); larceny-theft still leads at 37%.
Violent offenses are 37% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Southern Chester County Regional 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 | 26 | 167.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 15 | 96.7 |
| Burglary | 9 | 58 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 12.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 6.4 |
| Violent Crime | 15 | 96.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 45.1 |
| Rape | 5 | 32.2 |
| Robbery | 2 | 12.9 |
| Murder | 1 | 6.4 |
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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 16,477 | 54.6 | 388.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 16,500 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 15,441 | 51.8 | 433.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 15,570 | 64.2 | 353.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,511 | 96.7 | 167.6 |
Southern Chester County Regional Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Southern Chester County Regional's 41 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 Southern Chester County Regional in population. Their populations run from 15,170 to 15,645, against 15,511 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Southern Chester County Regional sits at 96.7/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Southern Chester County Regional at 96.7/100K violent and 167.6/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
96.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
167.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Southern Chester County Regional reported 15 violent crimes and 26 property crimes, for a total of 41 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Southern Chester County Regional's violent crime rate increased by 50.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 52.5%.
The most common crime type in Southern Chester County Regional is larceny-theft, accounting for 36.6% of all reported crimes (15 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Southern Chester County Regional 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 Southern Chester County Regional's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Southern Chester County Regional, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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