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Safety in Westfield · FBI data, 2023–2025

Recorded crime per resident in Westfield fell 75% from 2023 to 2025

On crimes reported by Westfield’s police in 2023–2025, it grades B+ for safety. Property crime averaged 10.7 incidents per 1,000 residents a year (17.5 in the rest of Pennsylvania).

Violent crime
0.0
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of PA (2.9)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
10.7
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of PA (17.5)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
35
0 violent · 35 property
2023–2025
Trend
▼ Falling
2023 to 2025
beyond ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Westfield

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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Westfield’s grade

Where Westfield sits
A+ Violent 0.0B− Property 10.7
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 73%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 63%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 35 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Westfield anywhere from B to A−.

How TownRatings grades safety →

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.

Trend

Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025

Show as a table
YearWestfield propertyRest of Pennsylvania propertyWestfield violentRest of Pennsylvania violent
202229.830.20.06.9
202318.219.10.03.2
20249.217.40.02.9
20254.616.10.02.6

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.

1,000 neighbors · one year

Crime in Westfield per 1,000 residents

Property crime (4.6)Violent crime (0)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Westfield0.0
Rest of PA2.6
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Westfield4.6
Rest of PA16.1
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

And no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

What gets reported

5 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft2
Burglary2
Vehicle theft1
Aggravated assault0
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
0
violent crimes
5
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

0 violent and 5 property, as reported to the FBI by Westfield’s police.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Westfield’s police reported 0 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.9 in the rest of Pennsylvania and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Westfield’s roads in 2019–2023

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 Westfield’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Westfield’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
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

Westfield and its neighbors

Westfield
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
WestfieldB+0.010.7

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Pennsylvania towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
WestfieldB+0.010.7
CochrantonA+0.00.0
ShinglehouseA+0.30.9
AbbottstownA1.01.9
MilfordA−0.38.8
RenovoD4.432.7

The five graded Pennsylvania towns closest to Westfield’s population (1,075), by grade.

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.
  • One number for all of Westfield. 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 Westfield’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,095 in 2025); our figure for Westfield is 1,075 (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 Westfield

Is Westfield, PA safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Westfield reports less crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade. Its police reported 0.0 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 Westfield?

0.0 violent and 10.7 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.

Who polices Westfield?

Westfield’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Westfield”. 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.