Schuylkill Navigation Canal, Oakes Reach Section · Photo: J Clear. · CC BY-SA 3.0Upper Providence Township records less violent crime per head than 84% of U.S. towns
Of the 7 towns on its borders with figures, 5 record less crime per resident. Still, the rate the grade counts dropped 40% from 2023 to 2025. In sum, crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Upper Providence Township at B+ (#333 of 578 graded towns in Pennsylvania): less crime per resident than 65% of U.S. towns. The local count comes to 0.5 violent crime and 11.1 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 Providence Township
5 of the 7 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 8 Pennsylvania towns on Upper Providence Township’s borders, 7 have a Safety Grade: Schuylkill Township (A+), East Pikeland Township (A), Lower Providence Township (A), Collegeville (A−), Phoenixville (A−), Limerick Township (B), Spring City (B). Trappe 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 Providence Township’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 42% of the 578 Pennsylvania towns we grade, against 65% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Upper Providence Township has 17,345 jobs based in town for 24,963 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 Providence 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 Providence Township property | Rest of Pennsylvania property | Upper Providence Township violent | Rest of Pennsylvania violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 14.3 | 30.4 | 0.7 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 13.3 | 19.1 | 0.5 | 3.3 |
| 2024 | 12.1 | 17.4 | 0.5 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 7.8 | 16.1 | 0.5 | 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, 2022–2025, against the rest of Pennsylvania.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Upper Providence Township | Rest of Pennsylvania | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.7 | 7.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Upper Providence Township’s police reported 38 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.5 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 Providence 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 about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
210 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.
12 violent and 198 property, as reported to the FBI by Upper Providence Township’s police.
10 people died in crashes on Upper Providence Township’s roads in 2019–2023
Upper Providence Township had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 3 were pedestrians.
That is 8.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Pennsylvania towns of 5,000–25,000 people (5.8, 579 towns).
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 Providence Township and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Providence Township | B+ | 0.5 | 11.1 |
| Lower Providence Township | A | 0.4 | 5.1 |
| Phoenixville | A− | 1.1 | 5.6 |
| Schuylkill Township | A+ | 0.1 | 2.9 |
| East Pikeland Township | A | 0.6 | 3.4 |
| Trappe | — | — | — |
| Collegeville | A− | 0.4 | 5.9 |
| Limerick Township | B | 0.3 | 13.2 |
| Spring City | B | 1.3 | 10.3 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Trappe has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Pennsylvania towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Providence Township | B+ | 0.5 | 11.1 |
| Upper Allen Township | A | 0.7 | 3.4 |
| Marple Township | B+ | 0.4 | 9.6 |
| 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 Providence Township’s population (24,963), 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 Providence 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 Providence Township’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (25,340 in 2025); our figure for Upper Providence Township is 24,963 (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 Providence Township
Is Upper Providence Township, PA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Upper Providence Township reports less crime per resident than 65% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #333 of 578 in Pennsylvania. Its police reported 0.5 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 Providence Township?
0.5 violent and 11.1 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 Providence Township safer than Lower Providence Township?
Lower Providence Township reports less crime per resident than Upper Providence Township: Lower Providence Township grades A for safety and Upper Providence Township B+. Lower Providence Township’s police reported 0.4 violent and 5.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Upper Providence Township?
Upper Providence Township’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County”. 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.