Crime in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania
Major crime in Willow Grove is 16% above the U.S. rate per resident: 61% lower for persons crimes and 33% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 8.0% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Willow Grove for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Willow Grove
The middle half of Willow Grove residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 32 and 109; the typical (median) resident's is 64. The citywide figure (116) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5027.6%
- 50–10041.1%
- 100–20022.5%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+8.9%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights and on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 8.0% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%
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.
Willow Grove against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
498 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Willow Grove; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Willow Grove has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Hatboro (2 mi), is 67% below Willow Grove's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Willow Grove
What are the most common crimes in Willow Grove?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 116 a year), other larceny (about 72 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.9 times 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. Willow Grove's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Willow Grove has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 27.8% 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: 12,571. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/willow-grove
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