Stowe Township, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 44% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Stowe Township, PA shows violent crime at 506.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,847.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
506.9/100K violent
1847.6/100K property
+44% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Stowe Township, PA
Position in the state cohort
Stowe Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 506.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Stowe Township ranks 40 of 838 — above 798 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +676.0% 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 311.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 506.9 in 2024 (+62.6%). The highest observed value was 506.9 in 2024 and the lowest 165.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Stowe Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Stowe Township's 506.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Homestead (505.1), Butler (501.0), Warren (519.8), Chester Township (522.6). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 21.5% of the 144 Part I offenses reported in Stowe Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 11.5 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 73.5% of reported property offenses in Stowe Township, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (19). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Stowe 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Stowe Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Stowe Township leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,962.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+84.5%
274.8 → 506.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.3%
2036.9 → 1847.6/100K
Property offenses lead Stowe Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
Property Crime
113
1847.6
1457.1
Larceny-Theft
83
1357.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
310.7
-
Burglary
11
179.9
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
31
506.9
249.5
Aggravated Assault
29
474.2
-
Murder
2
32.7
-
Rape
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Stowe Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Stowe Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Stowe Township: 507 violent, 1848 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Hellertown: 115 violent, 589 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Eastern Pike Regional: 65 violent, 2286 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Nazareth: 49 violent, 709 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Edinboro: 178 violent, 712 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Jackson Township, Butler County: 182 violent, 165 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Corry: 166 violent, 812 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Dickson City: 267 violent, 2652 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Moosic: 484 violent, 951 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Stowe Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Stowe Township Summary Reporting (SRS)
Stowe Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Stowe Township's 144 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
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In 2024, Stowe Township reported 31 violent crimes and 113 property crimes, for a total of 144 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Stowe Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Stowe Township's violent crime rate increased by 84.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.3%.
What is the most common crime in Stowe Township?
The most common crime type in Stowe Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.6% of all reported crimes (83 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Stowe Township is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Stowe Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.