CrimeMetric

Crime in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Major crime in Kennett Square is 62% below the U.S. rate per resident: 61% lower for persons crimes and 62% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
38
62% below the U.S. rate
54% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 8.2% in a year
Persons crimes
39
61% below the U.S. rate
44% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 4.2% in a year
Property crimes
38
62% below the U.S. rate
56% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 9.0% in a year
Social disorder
71
29% below the U.S. rate
19% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 6.6% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 12% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Kennett Square for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Kennett Square

The middle half of Kennett Square residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 11 and 55; the typical (median) resident's is 35.

Map of Kennett Square, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5067.8%
  • 50–10032.2%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm42
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am37
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm33
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am36
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.2% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.2%PA -8.6%+0.1%PA -14.0%
Persons crimes-4.2%PA -5.5%+13.3%PA -6.0%
Property crimes-9.0%PA -9.2%-2.8%PA -15.4%
Social disorder-6.6%PA -6.1%+5.9%PA -8.5%

Change in expected crimes, with Pennsylvania as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Kennett Square against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,665 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Kennett Square; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Kennett Square has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Hockessin (4 mi), is 49% above Kennett Square's rate.

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Kennett Square

What are the most common crimes in Kennett Square?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 21 a year), aggravated assault (about 7 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 12% above the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Kennett Square's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Kennett Square has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 7,251. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/kennett-square

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100