Summit Hill, PA carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 91% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Summit Hill, PA shows violent crime at 31.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 31.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 91% 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
31.9/100K violent
31.9/100K property
-91% vs U.S.
The verdict
Summit Hill earns an A+ safety grade: violent crime runs 91% below the U.S. average, placing it among the safest cities in the country.
A+
PlainCrime safety grade
-91%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
94th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
31.9
property crimes per 100K
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,139. 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 Summit Hill, PA
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 50.0% of the 2 Part I offenses reported in Summit Hill for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 40.0 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 0.0% of reported property offenses in Summit Hill, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Summit Hill reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,139. 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 67.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 31.9 in 2024 (-53.1%). The highest observed value was 67.9 in 2020 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Summit Hill's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Summit Hill's 31.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Earl Township (31.9), Kennett Township (31.7), West View (31.5), Conshohocken (32.4). 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
Summit Hill sits mid-pack among comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 31.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Summit Hill ranks 555 of 838 — above 283 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -51.8% 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.
Summit Hill's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,139. 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.
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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-49.8%
63.5 → 31.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.3%
31.8 → 31.9/100K
Summit Hill's 2024 offense mix (violent and property)
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1
31.9
1711
Burglary
1
31.9
-
Larceny-Theft
0
0
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
0
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
1
31.9
352
Rape
1
31.9
-
Murder
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Aggravated Assault
0
0
-
Summit Hill Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Summit Hill violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
31.9/100K↑0.3%vs 2023
Summit Hill property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
31.9/100K↓49.8%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
2,946
67.9
67.9
4
2021
Comparable
2,966
0
0
0
2022
Comparable
3,172
0
31.5
1
2023
Comparable
3,149
31.8
63.5
3
2024
Comparable
3,139
31.9
31.9
2
How Summit Hill sits among PA peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Summit Hill Police Department Summary Reporting (SRS)
Summit Hill's crime figures on this page originate from Summit Hill Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Summit Hill in population. Their populations run from 3,096 to 3,155, against 3,139 here. Or use our
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These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Summit Hill's 31.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Summit Hill has a violent crime rate of 31.9 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 31.9 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Summit Hill, PA safe? ▼
Summit Hill receives a safety grade of A+ (Very Safe), with a safety score of 97/100. The violent crime rate is 91% below the national average and 87% below the Pennsylvania average.
What is the population of Summit Hill, PA? ▼
The reporting population for Summit Hill is 3,139 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Summit Hill? ▼
In 2024, Summit Hill reported 1 violent crimes and 1 property crimes, for a total of 2 reported offenses.
How do Summit Hill's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Summit Hill recorded about one reported offense per 1570 residents and one reported violent offense per 3139 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Summit Hill? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Summit Hill's violent crime rate increased by 0.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 49.8%.
What is the most common crime in Summit Hill? ▼
The most common crime type in Summit Hill is burglary, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (1 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Summit Hill 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 Summit Hill, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.