District safety · Philadelphia · data through September 2026

How safe is Lower South, Philadelphia?

Lower South, Philadelphia covers 3 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Philadelphia index. Its median safety index is 87/100 — above the citywide median of 54, so a typical neighborhood here reads safer than a typical one across Philadelphia. Navy Yard scores highest at 99/100; Stadium District lowest at 84/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 3 of 3 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 0 moderate, 0 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Lower South, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Navy Yard	99/100	Low risk	16
2 Packer Park	87/100	Low risk	281
3 Stadium District	84/100	Low risk	295

How Lower South compares across Philadelphia

Districts (safest first)	Median index	Neighborhoods
Upper Far Northeast	89/100	3
Lower South (this page)	87/100	3
Lower Northwest	85/100	10
Lower Far Northeast	84/100	14
Central Northeast	73/100	5
West Park	69/100	4
North Delaware	67/100	5
Lower Southwest	66/100	5
River Wards	63/100	6
Lower Northeast	62/100	5
Upper North	57/100	8
Upper Northwest	54/100	10
University Southwest	52/100	11
South	49/100	13
Central	44/100	19
North	44/100	11
West	42/100	9
Lower North	40/100	10

Common questions

What is the safest neighborhood in Lower South, Philadelphia?

Navy Yard has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Lower South, Philadelphia, at 99/100 (low risk), from 16 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Packer Park (87/100) and Stadium District (84/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Lower South, Philadelphia has the most reported crime?

Stadium District has the lowest index in Lower South, Philadelphia, at 84/100, with 295 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. A low score means more is reported around that center, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is Lower South, Philadelphia safe?

Across its 3 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 87/100, against 54 across Philadelphia. 3 rate low risk, 0 moderate, 0 elevated and 0 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the district — check the individual neighborhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute safety index calculated?

SafeRoute weights each incident reported to the Philadelphia Police Department by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighborhood center, and normalizes against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The figure shown for Lower South, Philadelphia is the median of its 3 neighborhoods — the district is not measured separately.

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 neighborhoods 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.