Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Philadelphia (2024)
Philadelphia's open crime data doesn't include a reliable neighborhood-level population figure, so these police districts are ranked by reported incident volume, not a population-adjusted safety rate. A higher ranking here means more severity-weighted 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 highest to lowest reported volume
Not the same police districts shown on the safest neighborhoods in Philadelphia list.
- 1Police District 77Vol. 100/100
- 2Police District 5Vol. 89/100
- 3Police District 6Vol. 89/100
- 4Police District 1Vol. 83/100
- 5Police District 17Vol. 78/100
- 6Police District 7Vol. 78/100
- 7Police District 16Vol. 67/100
- 8Police District 8Vol. 60/100
- 9Police District 26Vol. 56/100
- 10Police District 3Vol. 55/100
- 11Police District 18Vol. 53/100
- 12Police District 24Vol. 37/100
- 13Police District 2Vol. 35/100
- 14Police District 35Vol. 35/100
- 15Police District 39Vol. 35/100
- 16Police District 12Vol. 33/100
- 17Police District 14Vol. 32/100
- 18Police District 25Vol. 25/100
- 19Police District 9Vol. 16/100
- 20Police District 19Vol. 15/100
- 21Police District 22Vol. 5/100
- 22Police District 15Vol. 0/100
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 →