Upper Darby Township, PA has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 214 per 100,000, 39% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Upper Darby Township, PA Crime Rate & Safety
At 84,668 residents, Upper Darby Township is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against PA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Upper Darby Township, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 39% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Upper Darby Township, PA shows violent crime at 213.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,832.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 39% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
213.8/100K violent
2832.2/100K property
-39% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Upper Darby Township, PA
Comparable rate records
Upper Darby Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Upper Darby Township's 213.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mount Carmel (214.1), Whitehall Township (213.1), West Chester (215.0), Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County (212.5). 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
Upper Darby Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 213.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Upper Darby Township ranks 138 of 838 — above 700 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +227.3% 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 189.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 213.8 in 2024 (+12.9%). The highest observed value was 258.1 in 2023 and the lowest 115.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Upper Darby 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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Upper Darby Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Upper Darby Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 2,579 offenses; mix index 6,513).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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
-17.2%
258.1 → 213.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
+4.6%
2706.4 → 2832.2/100K
Property offenses lead Upper Darby Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,398
2832.2
1457.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
2,057
2429.5
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
286
337.8
-
-
Burglary
55
65
-
-
Arson
1
1.2
-
-
Violent Crime
181
213.8
249.5
352
Robbery
113
133.5
-
-
Aggravated Assault
58
68.5
-
-
Rape
6
7.1
-
-
Murder
4
4.7
-
-
Upper Darby Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Upper Darby 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 averages
Upper Darby Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Upper Darby Township Summary Reporting (SRS)
Upper Darby Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Upper Darby Township's 2,579 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.
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How many crimes were reported in Upper Darby Township?
In 2024, Upper Darby Township reported 181 violent crimes and 2,398 property crimes, for a total of 2,579 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Upper Darby Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Upper Darby Township's violent crime rate decreased by 17.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.6%.
What is the most common crime in Upper Darby Township?
The most common crime type in Upper Darby Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.8% of all reported crimes (2,057 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Upper Darby Township's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Upper Darby Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.