CrimeMetric

Crime in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania

Major crime in Prospect Park is 49% below the U.S. rate per resident: 57% lower for persons crimes and 47% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
51
49% below the U.S. rate
39% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 7.5% in a year
Persons crimes
43
57% below the U.S. rate
38% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 4.4% in a year
Property crimes
53
47% below the U.S. rate
39% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 8.0% in a year
Social disorder
70
31% below the U.S. rate
20% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 6.4% 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 Prospect Park is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Prospect Park 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 Prospect Park

The middle half of Prospect Park residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 32 and 34; the typical (median) resident's is 32. The citywide figure (51) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Prospect Park, 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.
  • 0–5083.3%
  • 50–1005.5%
  • 100–2005.0%
  • 200–4006.2%
  • 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 6pm47
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am57
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm50
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am52
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.5% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.5%PA -8.6%-13.5%PA -14.0%
Persons crimes-4.4%PA -5.5%-2.5%PA -6.0%
Property crimes-8.0%PA -9.2%-15.5%PA -15.4%
Social disorder-6.4%PA -6.1%-8.6%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

Prospect Park against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,343 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Prospect Park; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Paola, KS6,44070
Prospect Park, PA6,45051
Berlin, WI6,44436

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

Nearby places

Prospect Park has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Norwood (1 mi), is 60% below Prospect Park's rate.

Folcroft2 mi166
Folsom1 mi139
Glenolden1 mi101
Woodlyn2 mi89
Prospect Park51
Norwood1 mi20

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

Questions about crime in Prospect Park

What are the most common crimes in Prospect Park?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 18 a year), shoplifting (about 18 a year) and aggravated assault (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 11% 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. Prospect Park's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Prospect Park 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: 6,450. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/prospect-park

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100