Wayne Township, PA has a A+ safety grade (99/100) with a violent crime rate of 0 per 100,000, .
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Wayne Township's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,404). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to PA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Wayne 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, Wayne Township, PA shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 124.8 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
Wayne Township reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,404. 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, Wayne 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 Wayne 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 3 Part I offenses reported in Wayne 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 66.7% of reported property offenses in Wayne Township, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Wayne 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 2,404. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Wayne Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 3 offenses; mix index 5,556).
Violent offenses are only 0% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Wayne 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 | 3 | 124.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 2 | 83.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 41.6 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 0 | 0 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,521 | 0 | 158.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,517 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,439 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,412 | 0 | 41.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,404 | 0 | 124.8 |
Wayne Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wayne Township's 3 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Wayne Township in population. Their populations run from 2,384 to 2,437, against 2,404 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Wayne Township reported 0 violent crimes and 3 property crimes, for a total of 3 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Wayne Township's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate increased by 200.7%.
The most common crime type in Wayne Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.7% of all reported crimes (2 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Wayne Township's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Wayne Township's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Wayne Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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