Spring Garden Township, PA has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 132 per 100,000, 63% below the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS

Spring Garden Township, PA Crime Rate & Safety

Spring Garden Township (13,649 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.

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A
Safety grade
Safe
1172.2
Property / 100K
131.9
Violent / 100K
14K
Population
-31%
property vs U.S.

Spring Garden Township, PA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 63% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Spring Garden Township, PA shows violent crime at 131.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,172.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 63% 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.

  • A safety grade
  • 131.9/100K violent
  • 1172.2/100K property
  • -63% vs U.S.

The verdict

Spring Garden Township earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 63% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.

A
PlainCrime safety grade
-63%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
62nd
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
1,172.2
property crimes per 100K

Based on 18 reported violent incidents in a population of 13,649. 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.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Spring Garden Township, PA

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Spring Garden Township reported 18 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 13,649. 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

Spring Garden Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Spring Garden Township's 131.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lower Windsor Township (131.6), Catawissa (131.2), Schuylkill Haven (133.0), Archbald (133.2). 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.

Position in the state cohort

Spring Garden Township sits mid-pack among comparable Pennsylvania cities

At 131.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Spring Garden Township ranks 245 of 838 — above 593 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +101.9% 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 Spring Garden 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 18 reported violent incidents in a population of 13,649. 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.

Property offenses lead Spring Garden Township's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 160 1172.2
Larceny-Theft 128 937.8
Burglary 21 153.9
Motor Vehicle Theft 11 80.6
Arson 2 14.7
Violent Crime 18 131.9
Aggravated Assault 15 109.9
Rape 2 14.7
Robbery 1 7.3
Murder 0 0

How Spring Garden Township sits among PA peers

Spring Garden Township vs. similar-size PA cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Spring Garden Township vs. similar-size PA cities, violent vs. property crime 0 633 Violent crime per 100K → 244 2,636 Property crime per 100K → Spring Garden T… SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages

Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania

Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Spring Garden Township in population. Their populations run from 13,488 to 13,694, against 13,649 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Similar violent-crime rates in Pennsylvania

These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Spring Garden Township's 131.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the crime rate in Spring Garden Township, PA?
Spring Garden Township has a violent crime rate of 131.9 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1172.2 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Spring Garden Township, PA safe?
Spring Garden Township receives a safety grade of A (Safe), with a safety score of 77/100. The violent crime rate is 63% below the national average and 47% below the Pennsylvania average.
What is the population of Spring Garden Township, PA?
The reporting population for Spring Garden Township is 13,649 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Spring Garden Township?
In 2024, Spring Garden Township reported 18 violent crimes and 160 property crimes, for a total of 178 reported offenses.
How do Spring Garden Township's reported offenses compare with its population?
In 2024, Spring Garden Township recorded about one reported offense per 77 residents and one reported violent offense per 758 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
What is the most common crime in Spring Garden Township?
The most common crime type in Spring Garden Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.9% of all reported crimes (128 incidents in 2024).

Mid-size read: Spring Garden 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.

Federal sources for this mid-size row

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Spring Garden 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. Spring Garden Township is scored in the mid-size municipal band (13,649 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.