Neighborhood safety · Philadelphia · data through November 2026

How safe is your Philadelphia neighborhood?

SafeRoute scores every Philadelphia neighborhood 0–100 from incidents reported to the Philadelphia Police Department — severity-weighted, within 1 km of each area's center, normalized citywide. Higher is safer. The same data powers the SafeRoute app's crime-aware walking routes.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. Note: the Philadelphia Police publish incident locations at block level for privacy, so dots mark blocks, not addresses. Citywide median index: 54/100.

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Central

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Queen Village	61/100	Moderate	1,273
Fairmount	54/100	Moderate	1,647
Fitler Square	52/100	Moderate	2,110
Northern Liberties	52/100	Moderate	1,863
Society Hill	49/100	Elevated	2,090
Spring Garden	49/100	Elevated	2,028
Bella Vista	47/100	Elevated	2,311
East Poplar	46/100	Elevated	2,232
Graduate Hospital	45/100	Elevated	2,727
Old City	44/100	Elevated	2,592
West Poplar	42/100	Elevated	2,593
Francisville	41/100	Elevated	2,619
Callowhill	39/100	Elevated	3,064
Hawthorne	39/100	Elevated	3,264
Logan Square	39/100	Elevated	3,165
Rittenhouse	30/100	Elevated	4,793
Chinatown	29/100	Elevated	4,837
Washington Square West	26/100	Elevated	5,883
Center City East	25/100	Elevated	5,954

How safe is Central Philadelphia? Median 44/100 across 19 neighborhoods →

Central Northeast

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Fox Chase	79/100	Low risk	612
Burholme	74/100	Moderate	806
Lexington Park	74/100	Moderate	770
Rhawnhurst	68/100	Moderate	1,018
Oxford Circle	58/100	Moderate	1,310

How safe is Central Northeast, Philadelphia? Median 74/100 across 5 neighborhoods →

Lower Far Northeast

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Mechanicsville	96/100	Low risk	83
Normandy Village	90/100	Low risk	252
Winchester Park	89/100	Low risk	250
West Torresdale	87/100	Low risk	313
Crestmont Farms	86/100	Low risk	294
Millbrook	84/100	Low risk	388
Franklin Mills	83/100	Low risk	413
Morrell Park	83/100	Low risk	353
Pennypack Woods	83/100	Low risk	402
Modena	82/100	Low risk	433
Aston-Woodbridge	81/100	Low risk	482
Parkwood Manor	80/100	Low risk	552
Pennypack	77/100	Low risk	587
Academy Gardens	76/100	Low risk	703

How safe is Lower Far Northeast, Philadelphia? Median 83/100 across 14 neighborhoods →

Lower North

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Old Kensington	45/100	Elevated	2,379
Brewerytown	42/100	Elevated	2,402
Ludlow	41/100	Elevated	2,760
Strawberry Mansion	40/100	Elevated	2,399
West Kensington	40/100	Elevated	2,560
Sharswood	38/100	Elevated	2,847
Yorktown	34/100	Elevated	3,891
Hartranft	33/100	Elevated	3,472
Stanton	31/100	Elevated	3,847
North Central	28/100	Elevated	4,878

How safe is Lower North, Philadelphia? Median 40/100 across 10 neighborhoods →

Lower Northeast

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Lawndale	74/100	Moderate	638
Northwood	67/100	Moderate	1,071
Summerdale	62/100	Moderate	1,159
Crescentville	61/100	Moderate	1,275
Frankford	47/100	Elevated	1,958

How safe is Lower Northeast, Philadelphia? Median 62/100 across 5 neighborhoods →

Lower Northwest

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Andorra	97/100	Low risk	60
Dearnley Park	95/100	Low risk	120
Upper Roxborough	90/100	Low risk	245
Roxborough Park	86/100	Low risk	356
East Falls	85/100	Low risk	368
Wissahickon	85/100	Low risk	365
Germany Hill	82/100	Low risk	459
Manayunk	82/100	Low risk	425
Wissahickon Hills	82/100	Low risk	422
Roxborough	80/100	Low risk	484

How safe is Lower Northwest, Philadelphia? Median 85/100 across 10 neighborhoods →

Lower South

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Navy Yard	99/100	Low risk	20
Packer Park	87/100	Low risk	341
Stadium District	84/100	Low risk	345

How safe is Lower South, Philadelphia? Median 87/100 across 3 neighborhoods →

Lower Southwest

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Eastwick	82/100	Low risk	438
Clearview	77/100	Low risk	565
Penrose	66/100	Moderate	938
Paschall	48/100	Elevated	1,904
Elmwood	45/100	Elevated	2,139

How safe is Lower Southwest, Philadelphia? Median 66/100 across 5 neighborhoods →

North

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Allegheny West	56/100	Moderate	1,398
Juniata Park	56/100	Moderate	1,494
Tioga	51/100	Moderate	1,651
Feltonville	47/100	Elevated	1,989
Nicetown	47/100	Elevated	1,909
Hunting Park	43/100	Elevated	2,308
Fairhill	38/100	Elevated	3,160
Franklinville	37/100	Elevated	3,099
Glenwood	37/100	Elevated	2,818
McGuire	31/100	Elevated	4,263
Upper Kensington	22/100	High risk	7,366

How safe is North Philadelphia? Median 43/100 across 11 neighborhoods →

North Delaware

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Torresdale	93/100	Low risk	146
Holmesburg	75/100	Low risk	550
Tacony	67/100	Moderate	886
Mayfair	55/100	Moderate	1,697
Wissinoming	55/100	Moderate	1,537

How safe is North Delaware, Philadelphia? Median 67/100 across 5 neighborhoods →

River Wards

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Port Richmond	85/100	Low risk	320
Bridesburg	82/100	Low risk	438
Richmond	63/100	Moderate	1,193
Fishtown - Lower Kensington	59/100	Moderate	1,431
Harrowgate	38/100	Elevated	3,100
East Kensington	37/100	Elevated	3,145

How safe is River Wards, Philadelphia? Median 63/100 across 6 neighborhoods →

South

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Riverfront	70/100	Moderate	1,007
Girard Estates	57/100	Moderate	1,592
Grays Ferry	56/100	Moderate	1,532
Whitman	53/100	Moderate	1,805
Pennsport	52/100	Moderate	1,893
Dickinson Narrows	50/100	Moderate	2,001
Newbold	49/100	Elevated	2,038
Passyunk Square	49/100	Elevated	2,173
Greenwich	48/100	Elevated	2,076
Lower Moyamensing	48/100	Elevated	2,095
East Passyunk	47/100	Elevated	2,182
West Passyunk	47/100	Elevated	2,243
Point Breeze	42/100	Elevated	2,936

How safe is South Philadelphia? Median 49/100 across 13 neighborhoods →

University Southwest

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Bartram Village	72/100	Moderate	670
Woodland Terrace	64/100	Moderate	1,151
University City	59/100	Moderate	1,432
Southwest Schuylkill	57/100	Moderate	1,279
Spruce Hill	54/100	Moderate	1,656
Cedar Park	52/100	Moderate	1,636
Powelton	51/100	Moderate	1,840
Garden Court	48/100	Elevated	1,997
Kingsessing	47/100	Elevated	1,813
Walnut Hill	44/100	Elevated	2,330
West Powelton	43/100	Elevated	2,347

How safe is University Southwest, Philadelphia? Median 52/100 across 11 neighborhoods →

Upper Far Northeast

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Byberry	98/100	Low risk	39
Bustleton	88/100	Low risk	258
Somerton	88/100	Low risk	261

How safe is Upper Far Northeast, Philadelphia? Median 88/100 across 3 neighborhoods →

Upper North

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Melrose Park Gardens	75/100	Low risk	633
Cedarbrook	73/100	Moderate	663
East Oak Lane	72/100	Moderate	719
West Oak Lane	57/100	Moderate	1,401
Olney	55/100	Moderate	1,508
Fern Rock	53/100	Moderate	1,565
Logan	52/100	Moderate	1,574
Ogontz	48/100	Elevated	1,905

How safe is Upper North, Philadelphia? Median 57/100 across 8 neighborhoods →

Upper Northwest

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Chestnut Hill	92/100	Low risk	162
West Mount Airy	86/100	Low risk	332
East Mount Airy	70/100	Moderate	811
West Central Germantown	56/100	Moderate	1,396
East Germantown	53/100	Moderate	1,483
Germantown - Westside	53/100	Moderate	1,563
Southwest Germantown	53/100	Moderate	1,495
Germantown - Morton	52/100	Moderate	1,548
Wister	51/100	Moderate	1,707
Germantown - Penn Knox	47/100	Elevated	2,000

How safe is Upper Northwest, Philadelphia? Median 53/100 across 10 neighborhoods →

West

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Overbrook	64/100	Moderate	934
Mantua	53/100	Moderate	1,512
Belmont	44/100	Elevated	2,121
Haverford North	42/100	Elevated	2,389
Cobbs Creek	41/100	Elevated	2,367
Mill Creek	41/100	Elevated	2,354
Carroll Park	38/100	Elevated	2,660
Dunlap	38/100	Elevated	2,763
Haddington	34/100	Elevated	3,103

How safe is West Philadelphia? Median 41/100 across 9 neighborhoods →

West Park

Neighborhood (safest first)	Index	Band	Incidents
Wynnefield Heights	76/100	Low risk	567
Wynnefield	68/100	Moderate	802
East Parkside	54/100	Moderate	1,416
West Parkside	52/100	Moderate	1,607

How safe is West Park, Philadelphia? Median 68/100 across 4 neighborhoods →

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Methodology

Each incident reported to the Philadelphia Police Department (via OpenDataPhilly) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighborhood we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its center, and normalize against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the 158 neighborhoods the city publishes, grouped by the 18 Planning Districts the City Planning Commission uses; seven are not scored because nobody lives in them — both halves of Fairmount Park, Wissahickon and Pennypack Parks, the two airports, and the Southwest refinery belt labelled "Industrial" — where near-zero reported crime would read as falsely "safe" rather than as empty land. Time-of-day charts use PPD dispatch timestamps, severity-weighted. Locations are published at block level for privacy. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares areas within Philadelphia. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Philadelphia's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.