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Eldred Township, Monroe County, PA municipal building, July 2023Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Safety in Eldred Township · Not graded

The nearest town with a Safety Grade to Eldred Township is Bushkill Township, 7 miles away

Eldred Township reports no crime figures of its own to the FBI for 2023–2025, so there is no Safety Grade. Inside a 10-mile circle sit 3 graded neighbors.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Pennsylvania towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
Bushkill TownshipA−7 mi1.53.1
Lehigh TownshipA+8 mi0.02.7
PalmertonA−10 mi0.36.6
Upper Nazareth TownshipA−10 mi1.62.6
NazarethA−11 mi0.85.6
SlatingtonA−11 mi0.46.7

Straight-line distance from the center of Eldred Township. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Eldred Township.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

Four people died in crashes on Eldred Township’s roads in 2019–2023

Eldred Township had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died.

That is more than 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 Eldred Township’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Eldred Township’s own rate (31.4) is context, not a ranking.

4
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
31.4
per 100,000 a year · Pennsylvania towns of 2,500–5,000: 7.1

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.

Next door

Eldred Township and its neighbors

Moore Township: not gradedPolk Township: not gradedLower Towamensing Township: not gradedTowamensing Township: not gradedRoss Township: not gradedMoore TownshipPolk TownshipLower Towamensing TownshipTowamensing TownshipRoss TownshipEldred Township
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Moore Township———
Polk Township———
Towamensing Township———
Lower Towamensing Township———
Ross Township———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Moore Township, Polk Township, Towamensing Township, Lower Towamensing Township and Ross 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.

How to read these numbers

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 Eldred Township

Is Eldred Township, PA safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Eldred Township. Eldred Township 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 Bushkill Township (A−, 7 mi), Lehigh Township (A+, 8 mi), Palmerton (A−, 10 mi).

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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.