Safest Neighborhoods in Philadelphia (2024)
Philadelphia's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these police districts are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The police districts at the top of this list have the fewest reported incidents relative to other Philadelphia police districts.
Volume, not a safety rate. Philadelphia PD district resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Philadelphia PD district (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Philadelphia zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked lowest reported volume first
Not the same police districts as the most dangerous neighborhoods in philadelphia list.
- 1Police District 77100/100
- 2Police District 589/100
- 3Police District 689/100
- 4Police District 183/100
- 5Police District 1778/100
- 6Police District 778/100
- 7Police District 1667/100
- 8Police District 860/100
- 9Police District 2656/100
- 10Police District 355/100
- 11Police District 1853/100
- 12Police District 2437/100
- 13Police District 235/100
- 14Police District 3535/100
- 15Police District 3935/100
- 16Police District 1233/100
- 17Police District 1432/100
- 18Police District 2525/100
- 19Police District 916/100
- 20Police District 1915/100
- 21Police District 225/100
- 22Police District 150/100
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Safest neighborhoods in Philadelphia — FAQ
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No area has zero risk
A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →