West Goshen Township, PA has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 289 per 100,000, 18% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
West Goshen Township (23,889 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
West Goshen Township, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 18% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Goshen Township, PA shows violent crime at 288.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,050.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 18% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 125.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 288.8 in 2024 (+130.1%). The highest observed value was 288.8 in 2024 and the lowest 125.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 288.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Goshen Township ranks 91 of 838 — above 747 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +342.2% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West Goshen Township's 288.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Brownsville (288.9), Marcus Hook (288.7), Hamburg (286.5), Sharpsville (291.7). 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 21.6% of the 320 Part I offenses reported in West Goshen Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 11.6 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 counts dominate West Goshen 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
West Goshen Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 320 offenses; mix index 5,041).
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
West Goshen 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 | 251 | 1050.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 216 | 904.2 |
| Burglary | 25 | 104.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 41.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.2 |
| Violent Crime | 69 | 288.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 65 | 272.1 |
| Robbery | 3 | 12.6 |
| Murder | 1 | 4.2 |
| Rape | 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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 23,100 | 125.5 | 948.1 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 23,089 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 23,293 | 171.7 | 613.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,823 | 201.5 | 835.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,889 | 288.8 | 1050.7 |
West Goshen Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Goshen Township's 320 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 West Goshen Township in population. Their populations run from 22,933 to 25,016, against 23,889 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
West Goshen Township sits at 288.8/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
West Goshen Township at 288.8/100K violent and 1,050.7/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
288.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,050.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, West Goshen Township reported 69 violent crimes and 251 property crimes, for a total of 320 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, West Goshen Township's violent crime rate increased by 43.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 25.8%.
The most common crime type in West Goshen Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.5% of all reported crimes (216 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: West Goshen 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 West Goshen Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 West Goshen Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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