Springfield Township, Montgomery County, PA has a A safety grade (89/100) with a violent crime rate of 43 per 100,000, 88% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Springfield Township, Montgomery County, PA Crime Rate & Safety
Springfield Township, Montgomery County (21,044 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Springfield Township, Montgomery County, PA is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 88% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Springfield Township, Montgomery County, PA shows violent crime at 42.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 798.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 88% 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
42.8/100K violent
798.3/100K property
-88% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Springfield Township, Montgomery County, PA
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Springfield Township, Montgomery County reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 21,044. 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
Springfield Township, Montgomery County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Springfield Township, Montgomery County's 42.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are East Taylor Township (42.6), Dallas Township (43.2), Aston Township (42.3), Bradford Township (43.3). 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
Springfield Township, Montgomery County sits mid-pack among comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 42.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Springfield Township, Montgomery County ranks 509 of 838 — above 329 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -35.3% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 5.1% of the 177 Part I offenses reported in Springfield Township, Montgomery County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 4.9 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.
Property counts dominate Springfield Township, Montgomery County'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 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 21,044. 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.
Springfield Township, Montgomery County's 2024 municipal footprint
Springfield Township, Montgomery County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 177 offenses; mix index 6,546).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Springfield Township, Montgomery County 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.
Property offenses lead Springfield Township, Montgomery County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
168
798.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
141
670
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
24
114
-
Burglary
3
14.3
-
Arson
1
4.8
-
Violent Crime
9
42.8
352
Aggravated Assault
6
28.5
-
Robbery
2
9.5
-
Murder
1
4.8
-
Rape
0
0
-
How Springfield Township, Montgomery County sits among PA peers
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 Springfield Township, Montgomery County in population. Their populations run from 20,469 to 21,585, against 21,044 here. Or use our
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Springfield Township, Montgomery County's closest PA violent-rate matches
Springfield Township, Montgomery County sits at 42.8/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Out-of-state peers for Springfield Township, Montgomery County
Springfield Township, Montgomery County at 42.8/100K violent and 798.3/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
Springfield Township, Montgomery County violent rate vs peers
More about Springfield Township, Montgomery County's 2024 record
How many crimes were reported in Springfield Township, Montgomery County?
In 2024, Springfield Township, Montgomery County reported 9 violent crimes and 168 property crimes, for a total of 177 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Springfield Township, Montgomery County?
The most common crime type in Springfield Township, Montgomery County is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.7% of all reported crimes (141 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Springfield Township, Montgomery County 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 Springfield Township, Montgomery County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Federal sources for this mid-size row
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Summary Reporting System + National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). FBI UCR Program
FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE), current-vintage UCR/NIBRS data source. FBI Crime Data Explorer
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), National Crime Victimization Survey, contextual statistics. Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau ACS, population denominators for rate calculations. U.S. Census Bureau ACS
CDC WONDER, injury and mortality reference for homicide rate context. CDC WONDER
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Springfield Township, Montgomery County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.