Crime rate & statistics
Philadelphia Crime Rate & Safety Statistics
What Philadelphia's violent and property crime numbers reveal, and how they map onto everyday risk.
Key indices
Philadelphia crime at a glance
Index values are scaled so that 100 equals the U.S. average.
Your odds
Estimated victimization risk
Calibrated against national benchmark rates and expressed as everyday odds.
Trend
Is crime rising or falling in Philadelphia?
Reported incidents per month over the most recent year of data.
Context
How to read these numbers
Philadelphia's violent crime rate exceeds the national average, shaped above all by gun violence that peaked in the early 2020s and concentrates in North, West, and lower Northeast sections of the city. Property crime, including retail theft and theft from vehicles, is widespread, while large parts of the Northwest and outer Northeast remain comparatively quiet.
We translate Philadelphia's crime indices into estimated rates per 100,000 residents using national benchmark rates, then express them as plain odds, such as a “1 in N” annual chance. Indices are scaled so that 100 equals the national average, and letter grades place each area on an A-to-F curve calibrated across U.S. cities, so a grade means the same thing here as anywhere else.