Photo: User:Smallbones on English Wikipedia. · Public domainPolicing and crime in Chester Heights, PA
Drive 10 miles in any direction and you reach 31 towns with grades of their own. No FBI crime figures of its own exist for Chester Heights for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade. The closest graded town is Aston Township, 2 miles away, at A−.
The nearest Pennsylvania towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aston Township | A− | 2 mi | 0.7 | 6.5 |
| Bethel Township | A | 4 mi | 0.4 | 5.2 |
| Upper Chichester Township | C+ | 4 mi | 1.6 | 14.9 |
| Brookhaven | C | 4 mi | 1.1 | 23.5 |
| Media | B− | 4 mi | 1.4 | 15.0 |
| Upper Providence Township | A+ | 4 mi | 0.1 | 1.6 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Chester Heights. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Chester Heights.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Two people died in crashes on Chester Heights’s roads in 2019–2023
Chester Heights had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died.
That is about what is typical for Pennsylvania towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (7.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Chester Heights’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Chester Heights’s own rate (13.6) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Chester Heights and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middletown Township | — | — | — |
| Aston Township | A− | 0.7 | 6.5 |
| Concord Township | — | — | — |
| Thornbury Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Middletown Township, Concord Township and Thornbury Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Chester Heights
Is Chester Heights, PA safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Chester Heights. Chester Heights has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Pennsylvania towns with a grade are Aston Township (A−, 2 mi), Bethel Township (A, 4 mi), Upper Chichester Township (C+, 4 mi).
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Chester Heights.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.