Photo: Badagnani · CC BY-SA 3.0Upper Allen Township reports less crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Upper Allen Township’s police in 2023–2025, it grades A for safety: #149 of 578 graded towns in Pennsylvania.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of PA” is every other Pennsylvania city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Upper Allen Township
1 of the 4 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 6 Pennsylvania towns on Upper Allen Township’s borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: Carroll Township (A+), Fairview Township (A−), Mechanicsburg (B), Lower Allen Township (B). Monaghan Township and Monroe Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Among Pennsylvania towns, closer to the middle
Pennsylvania’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Upper Allen Township’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 74% of the 578 Pennsylvania towns we grade, against 88% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Upper Allen Township is home to Messiah University, with 2,684 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 16% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Upper Allen Township’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Upper Allen Township’s police reported 49 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.9 in the rest of Pennsylvania and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Upper Allen Township | Rest of Pennsylvania | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.5 | 7.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 3 property crimes reported
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
Reported crime is steady
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Pennsylvania.
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| Year | Upper Allen Township property | Rest of Pennsylvania property | Upper Allen Township violent | Rest of Pennsylvania violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.9 | 30.5 | 0.5 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 3.7 | 19.1 | 0.5 | 3.3 |
| 2024 | 3.4 | 17.4 | 0.8 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 3.1 | 16.1 | 0.7 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
96 crimes reported in 2025
18 violent and 78 property, as reported to the FBI by Upper Allen Township’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
One person died in crashes on Upper Allen Township’s roads in 2019–2023
Upper Allen Township had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died. Most of these deaths (1 of 1) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is fewer than is typical for Pennsylvania towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (5.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Upper Allen Township’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Upper Allen Township’s own rate (0.8) 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.
Upper Allen Township and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Allen Township | A | 0.7 | 3.4 |
| Monaghan Township | — | — | — |
| Mechanicsburg | B | 0.7 | 11.9 |
| Carroll Township | A+ | 0.3 | 2.4 |
| Monroe Township | — | — | — |
| Lower Allen Township | B | 0.6 | 14.1 |
| Fairview Township | A− | 0.9 | 5.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Monaghan Township and Monroe Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Pennsylvania towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Allen Township | A | 0.7 | 3.4 |
| Marple Township | B+ | 0.4 | 9.6 |
| Upper Providence Township | B+ | 0.5 | 11.1 |
| Derry Township | B | 1.1 | 9.2 |
| West Goshen Township | B− | 2.3 | 10.4 |
| Springfield Township | C | 0.7 | 26.2 |
The five graded Pennsylvania towns closest to Upper Allen Township’s population (24,700), by grade.
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.
- One number for all of Upper Allen Township. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Upper Allen Township’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (24,786 in 2025); our figure for Upper Allen Township is 24,700 (2025 Census estimate).
- 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 Upper Allen Township
Is Upper Allen Township, PA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Upper Allen Township reports less crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade and #149 of 578 in Pennsylvania. Its police reported 0.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.9 in the rest of Pennsylvania and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Upper Allen Township?
0.7 violent and 3.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Pennsylvania reports 2.9 and 17.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Upper Allen Township?
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.
Is Upper Allen Township safer than Mechanicsburg?
Mechanicsburg reports more crime per resident than Upper Allen Township: Mechanicsburg grades B for safety and Upper Allen Township A. Mechanicsburg’s police reported 0.7 violent and 11.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Upper Allen Township?
Upper Allen Township’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Upper Allen Township”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, 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.