CrimeMetric

Crime in Merion Station, Pennsylvania

Major crime in Merion Station is 58% below the U.S. rate per resident: 92% lower for persons crimes and 51% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.7% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
42
58% below the U.S. rate
50% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 11.7% in a year
Persons crimes
8
92% below the U.S. rate
88% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 1.5% in a year
Property crimes
49
51% below the U.S. rate
43% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 12.0% in a year
Social disorder
70
30% below the U.S. rate
20% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 6.1% 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

Every crime type in Merion Station is near or below the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Merion Station

Merion Station is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 46; the middle half of residents live where it is between 28 and 50.

Map of Merion Station, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–50100.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 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 weeknights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm38
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am49
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm38
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am41
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 11.7% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-11.7%PA -8.6%-13.2%PA -14.0%
Persons crimes-1.5%PA -5.5%-4.2%PA -6.0%
Property crimes-12.0%PA -9.2%-13.5%PA -15.4%
Social disorder-6.1%PA -6.1%-6.5%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

Merion Station against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,584 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Merion Station; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Colonie, NY7,708203
Taft, CA7,692170
Selma, NC7,691156
Merion Station, PA7,69642

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

Nearby places

Merion Station has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Narberth (1 mi), is 38% above Merion Station's rate.

Ardmore3 mi126
Yeadon5 mi119
Bryn Mawr4 mi113
Lansdowne5 mi99
Narberth1 mi58
Merion Station42

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

Questions about crime in Merion Station

What are the most common crimes in Merion Station?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 28 a year), theft from vehicle (about 13 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 22% below 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. Merion Station's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Merion Station 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: 7,696. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Merion Station, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/merion-station

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100