Knipe-Johnson Farm · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0On violent crime, Upper Gwynedd Township has a lower rate per resident than 94% of U.S. towns
Upper Gwynedd Township grades A for safety overall (#163 of 578 graded towns in Pennsylvania): less crime per resident than 87% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. None of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Add to that, the crimes the grade counts fell 33% per resident from 2023 to 2025. The local count comes to 0.2 violent crime and 5.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 2.9 and 17.5 in the rest of 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 Gwynedd Township
Upper Gwynedd Township reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 4 Pennsylvania towns on Upper Gwynedd Township’s borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Towamencin Township (A−), Lower Gwynedd Township (B+), Lansdale (B). Worcester Township has no FBI figures of its 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 Gwynedd Township’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 72% of the 578 Pennsylvania towns we grade, against 87% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Upper Gwynedd Township has 17,981 jobs based in town for 17,255 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Upper Gwynedd 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; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Upper Gwynedd Township property | Rest of Pennsylvania property | Upper Gwynedd Township violent | Rest of Pennsylvania violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6.6 | 19.1 | 0.2 | 3.3 |
| 2024 | 5.7 | 17.4 | 0.3 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 4.3 | 16.1 | 0.2 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Pennsylvania.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Upper Gwynedd Township | Rest of Pennsylvania | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.2 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.2 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Upper Gwynedd Township’s police reported 12 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.9 in the rest of Pennsylvania and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Upper Gwynedd Township per 1,000 residents
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.
And fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
80 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
4 violent and 76 property, as reported to the FBI by Upper Gwynedd Township’s police.
One person died in crashes on Upper Gwynedd Township’s roads in 2019–2023
Upper Gwynedd Township had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
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 Gwynedd Township’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Upper Gwynedd Township’s own rate (1.2) 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 Gwynedd Township and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Gwynedd Township | A | 0.2 | 5.5 |
| Lansdale | B | 1.0 | 9.4 |
| Lower Gwynedd Township | B+ | 0.5 | 9.7 |
| Worcester Township | — | — | — |
| Towamencin Township | A− | 0.2 | 6.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Worcester Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Pennsylvania towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Gwynedd Township | A | 0.2 | 5.5 |
| North Strabane Township | A | 0.8 | 2.3 |
| West Lampeter Township | A | 0.4 | 5.0 |
| Butler Township | B− | 1.1 | 14.2 |
| Upper Chichester Township | C+ | 1.6 | 14.9 |
| McKeesport | D− | 15.6 | 25.2 |
The five graded Pennsylvania towns closest to Upper Gwynedd Township’s population (17,255), by grade.
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.
- One number for all of Upper Gwynedd 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 Gwynedd Township’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (17,492 in 2025); our figure for Upper Gwynedd Township is 17,255 (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 Gwynedd Township
Is Upper Gwynedd Township, PA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Upper Gwynedd Township reports less crime per resident than 87% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade and #163 of 578 in Pennsylvania. Its police reported 0.2 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 Gwynedd Township?
0.2 violent and 5.5 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 Upper Gwynedd Township safer than Lansdale?
Lansdale reports more crime per resident than Upper Gwynedd Township: Lansdale grades B for safety and Upper Gwynedd Township A. Lansdale’s police reported 1.0 violent and 9.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Upper Gwynedd Township?
Upper Gwynedd Township’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Upper Gwynedd 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.