Upper Uwchlan Township, PA has a A+ safety grade (98/100) with a violent crime rate of 0 per 100,000, .
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Upper Uwchlan Township (13,625 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Upper Uwchlan Township, PA is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Upper Uwchlan Township, PA shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 271.6 per 100,000. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Upper Uwchlan Township reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 13,625. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Upper Uwchlan Township ranks 641 of 838 — above 0 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -100.0% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Upper Uwchlan Township's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Adams Township, Cambria County (0.0), Alburtis (0.0), Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County (0.0), Avoca (0.0). 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 are 0.0% of the 37 Part I offenses reported in Upper Uwchlan Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 10.0 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
Larceny-theft is 94.6% of reported property offenses in Upper Uwchlan Township, against a cohort median of 85.8%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Upper Uwchlan 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 0 reported violent incidents in a population of 13,625. 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.
Upper Uwchlan Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (95% of 37 offenses; mix index 8,977).
Violent offenses are only 0% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Upper Uwchlan Township 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 37 | 271.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 35 | 256.9 |
| Burglary | 2 | 14.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 0 | 0 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 11,887 | 0 | 252.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 12,072 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,967 | 7.7 | 131.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,476 | 0 | 304.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,625 | 0 | 271.6 |
Upper Uwchlan Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Upper Uwchlan Township's 37 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Upper Uwchlan Township in population. Their populations run from 13,488 to 13,694, against 13,625 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Upper Uwchlan Township sits at 0/100K violent (grade A+); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Upper Uwchlan Township reported 0 violent crimes and 37 property crimes, for a total of 37 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Upper Uwchlan Township's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.7%.
The most common crime type in Upper Uwchlan Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 94.6% of all reported crimes (35 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Upper Uwchlan 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Upper Uwchlan Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Upper Uwchlan Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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