Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2025
Philadelphia, PA Crime Grade
How Philadelphia grades for violent crime against every other reporting U.S. city — and against the rest of Pennsylvania — based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data.
National
10/10
vs. all U.S. cities ≥ 25,000 population
Pennsylvania
10/10
vs. Pennsylvania cities ≥ 10,000 population
In 2025, the violent crime rate in Philadelphia, PA was 821.6 per 100,000 residents (12,837 incidents over a population of 1,562,379). That puts Philadelphia Infinity% above the U.S. rate of 0.0 and 260% above the Pennsylvania statewide rate of 228.5.
That ranks Philadelphia #3,612 of 3,771 ranked U.S. cities, safer than 4% of them, and #239 of 240 in Pennsylvania. Violent crime is down 10% year over year and down 17% over the last five years.
Philadelphia, PA crime — key facts
- National Crime Grade
- F (10/10)
- Pennsylvania Grade
- F (10/10)
- Violent crime rate
- 821.6 / 100k
- National rank
- #3,612 of 3,771
- PA rank
- #239 of 240
- Safer than
- 4% of U.S. cities
- Year over year
- down 10%
- 5-year change
- down 17%
- Population
- 1,562,379
- Reporting agency
- Philadelphia Police Department
- Data year
- 2025 · FBI UCR
Reported by Philadelphia Police Department (FBI ORI PAPEP0000) to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Download the full dataset (CSV) · methodology.
About Philadelphia, PA
Also known as
- Coaquannock
- Filadelfia
- Quequenakee
- Tsi wahswèn:to Tekahsó:ken
- Filadelfija
- Ga-na-ta-jen-go-na
History
From the Greek, philadelphos, meaning "loving one's brother." Ranked 4th by population in the 1980 census. The variant name, "Tsi wahswèn:to Tekahsó:ken", is a Mohawk name which translates to: "at the coal/forked mouth or forked margins".
Name history sourced from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) — public-domain federal geographic-names data.
Violent crime rate, 5-year trend
Per 100,000 residents. Philadelphia (red), Pennsylvania (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Philadelphia vs. U.S., 2025 — by offense
Rates per 100,000 residents for each offense category.
Full data, last 5 years
Rates per 100,000 residents. Raw counts in parentheses.
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 986.3(15,830) | 1053.5(16,390) | 991.8(15,381) | 916.5(14,199) | 821.6(12,837) |
| Murder | 35.8(575) | 33.4(520) | 26.5(411) | 17.3(268) | 14.2(222) |
| Rape | 58.1(933) | 55.9(869) | 50.9(790) | 48.5(752) | 41.8(653) |
| Robbery | 306.8(4,924) | 373.3(5,808) | 336.3(5,215) | 274.8(4,257) | 225.6(3,524) |
| Aggravated assault | 585.6(9,398) | 590.9(9,193) | 578.1(8,965) | 575.9(8,922) | 540.1(8,438) |
| Property crime | 3248.6(52,138) | 4383.5(68,199) | 5120.7(79,414) | 4613.6(71,477) | 4342.7(67,850) |
| Burglary | 368.0(5,907) | 418.5(6,511) | 365.3(5,666) | 320.7(4,968) | 297.8(4,653) |
| Larceny | 2285.6(36,682) | 3112.3(48,421) | 3176.3(49,260) | 3236.5(50,141) | 2985.6(46,647) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 555.0(8,908) | 818.4(12,732) | 1534.1(23,792) | 1009.8(15,644) | 1022.0(15,967) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- What is the source of the Philadelphia, PA Crime Grade?
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting via the Crime Data Explorer. Agency-level data, pulled directly. No third-party aggregators, no proprietary score.
- What metric does the Philadelphia Crime Grade use?
- Violent crime rate per 100,000 residents (murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault), most recent fully-reported year.
- How is the national decile for Philadelphia calculated?
- Philadelphia's rate placed against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities with population ≥ 25,000. 1 = safest.
- How is the Pennsylvania state decile calculated?
- Same calculation restricted to Pennsylvania cities with population ≥ 10,000.
- How do decile scores convert to a letter grade?
- 1–3 = A · 4–5 = B · 6–7 = C · 8 = D · 9–10 = F.
- How often is the Philadelphia Crime Grade refreshed?
- Twice a year. The FBI typically releases the prior year's full data each September.
- What are the limits of this Crime Grade?
- The FBI relies on local agency reporting. Rates reflect what was reported, not what occurred.
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