Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Neighborhood crime trends

Philadelphia Holmesburg

Name: Crimes per 1,000 residents by neighborhood, Holmesburg, Q1 2022 to Q2 2026
Creator: CrimesLog

22 neighborhoods - a quarterly race to the lowest crime rate.

Crime Trends: Neighborhoods compared - each quarter from Q1 2022

Philadelphia as a whole averaged 25.7 crimes for every 1,000 residents per quarter in Q2 2026, while Holmesburg averaged 24.5 (leaving out 1 place with almost no residents), hence it is generally about as safe as Philadelphia as a whole when all crimes are considered.

How do the 22 neighborhoods of Holmesburg compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 7,844 crimes across them, 24.5 for every 1,000 residents. That is 4.7% above a year earlier and 33.8% above Q1 2022, the first quarter we track.

Aston-Woodbridge has the lowest rate of the everyday neighborhoods (8.0 per 1,000), followed by Morrell Park (11.0) and Pennypack Woods (12.8). Harrowgate has the highest (63.5).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 22 PHILADELPHIA HOLMESBURG NEIGHBORHOODs race across 18 quarter periods from Q1 2022 to Q2 2026 - one crime category at a time or all together. The race chart can be used to compare average crime rates by category against Philadelphia's average.

Neighborhood boundaries are defined by OpenDataPhilly / Robert Cheetham (CC BY) and simplified by CrimesLog.

A little history

Holmesburg in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is the most populous city in Pennsylvania and is known for its culture, cuisine, and history. Holmesburg is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of the city. It began as a village within Lower Dublin Township and was named for Thomas Holme, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania, a cartographer who devised the street plan for central Philadelphia.

Notable neighborhoods in Philadelphia's Holmesburg district include:

Oxford Circle and Rhawnhurst. Oxford Circle takes its name from the much used traffic circle at Roosevelt Boulevard and Oxford Avenue. The neighborhood has traditionally included the areas up to Rhawnhurst and Mayfair, though it has no fixed boundaries. Rhawnhurst was named by area real estate developers for George and William Rhawn. Its geographic center is at the intersection of Castor Avenue and Rhawn Street.

Wissinoming and Pennypack. Wissinoming was the site of locomotive builder Matthias Baldwin's estate, also called "Wissinoming," near Tacony and Van Kirk Streets. Pennypack lies between Northeast Philadelphia Airport and Pennypack Park. Its name comes from the Lenape word "penepekw," meaning "deep water."

Lowest rate (everyday)

Aston-Woodbridge

8.0 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

Harrowgate

63.5 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

24.5 per 1,000

4.7% above a year earlier ·

33.8% above Q1 2022

Compared

22 neighborhoods

320,098 residents · 18 quarters

Philadelphia Holmesburg neighborhood quarterly crime race

Press ▶︎ to watch Q1 2022 to Q2 2026. Tick one crime category or several; hover a bar for the neighborhood. Property crimes includes burglaries and thefts.

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Greenbelt Knoll, Pennypack Woods — **Pennypack Woods** · Greenbelt Knoll
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Into the Woods, Pennypack — **Pennypack** · Into the Woods
Photo: jiwasz, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

Mayfair, Mayfair — **Mayfair** · Mayfair
Photo: Coemgenus at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Glen Foerd at T, Torresdale — **Torresdale** · Glen Foerd at T
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

(1876Exhib) P820 - Philadelphia, BRIDESBURG MANUFACTURING, Bridesburg — **Bridesburg** · (1876Exhib) P820 - Philadelphia, BRIDESBURG MANUFACTURING
Photo: unknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Edwin Forrest Home, Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Holmesburg — **Holmesburg** · Edwin Forrest Home, Holmesburg, Philadelphia
Photo: H. L. Brown, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Ham Disston School Philly, Tacony — **Tacony** · Ham Disston School Philly
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, Port Richmond — **Port Richmond** · Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia
Photo: Wikited at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

How neighborhoods moved each quarter

2022

Whole-area crime rate 18.3 to 22.2 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2022).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Bridesburg 14th→10th (Q2) moved down Academy Gardens 9th→13th (Q2) West Torresdale 3rd→14th (Q2) Pennypack Park 15th→19th (Q2) West Torresdale 14th→4th (Q3) Pennypack 9th→13th (Q3) Bridesburg 10th→15th (Q3) Bridesburg 15th→11th (Q4) Pennypack Park 22nd→18th (Q4)

2023

Whole-area crime rate 22.0 to 26.5 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2023).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Winchester Park 7th→2nd (Q1) Juniata Park 17th→13th (Q1) moved down Bridesburg 11th→15th (Q1) Torresdale 7th→3rd (Q2) Pennypack Park 21st→8th (Q2) Tacony 19th→15th (Q2) West Torresdale 1st→22nd (Q2) Academy Gardens 10th→5th (Q3) Pennypack Park 8th→18th (Q3) Crestmont Farms 8th→4th (Q4) Lexington Park 6th→10th (Q4)

2024

Whole-area crime rate 21.7 to 26.4 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2024).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Pennypack Park 17th→1st (Q1) Lexington Park 10th→3rd (Q1) moved down Winchester Park 1st→8th (Q1) Oxford Circle 7th→11th (Q1) Mayfair 11th→15th (Q1) Winchester Park 8th→1st (Q2) Pennypack 13th→6th (Q2) Pennypack Park 1st→10th (Q2) Pennypack Woods 7th→11th (Q2) Tacony 12th→16th (Q2) moved up Crestmont Farms 7th→2nd (Q3) Pennypack Park 10th→4th (Q3) moved down Lexington Park 4th→11th (Q3) Pennypack 6th→12th (Q3) Winchester Park 1st→5th (Q4) Torresdale 5th→9th (Q4)

2025

Whole-area crime rate 19.7 to 25.1 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2025).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved down Pennypack Park 3rd→10th (Q1) moved up Juniata Park 16th→11th (Q1) Bridesburg 10th→14th (Q1) Winchester Park 3rd→8th (Q2) Mayfair 15th→10th (Q2) Academy Gardens 9th→14th (Q2) Pennypack Park 10th→19th (Q2) Academy Gardens 14th→10th (Q3) Torresdale 7th→14th (Q3) Pennypack Park 19th→1st (Q4) Academy Gardens 10th→5th (Q4) moved down Lexington Park 2nd→7th (Q4) Crestmont Farms 1st→10th (Q4) Bridesburg 9th→14th (Q4)

2026

Whole-area crime rate 19.3 to 24.5 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved down Pennypack Woods 2nd→7th (Q1) moved up Bridesburg 14th→8th (Q1) Torresdale 15th→10th (Q1) Rhawnhurst 18th→11th (Q1) Academy Gardens 5th→13th (Q1) Crestmont Farms 10th→14th (Q1) Crestmont Farms 14th→1st (Q2) Pennypack Park 1st→5th (Q2) Academy Gardens 13th→8th (Q2) moved down Lexington Park 4th→10th (Q2) Bridesburg 8th→13th (Q2) Rhawnhurst 11th→16th (Q2)

Reported Safety Incidents

In Q2 2026: property incidents were 41% (3,199), violent incidents were 25% (1,947), vehicle crimes were 16% (1,237) and public order incidents were 6% (458).

Recorded crime here is grouped into violent crime, property crime (burglary and theft), vehicle crime and public order offences, so you can compare how safe each neighborhood is for the kind of crime that matters to you.

Read category comparisons with care. A category that jumps while the total hardly moves looks like a change in how offences are classified, not in what happened: Q1 2024: vehicle down 30% while the total moved 8%. The whole-area rate is the steadier guide.

Places we left out, and places to read with care

Left out: Port Richmond. They have almost no residents: their crimes are against visitors, so a rate per resident says little about living there.

Crestmont Farms (7.9 per 1,000 from 2 crimes among 252 residents), West Torresdale (68.8 per 1,000 from 19 crimes among 276 residents), Pennypack Park (12.3 per 1,000 from 9 crimes among 729 residents) and Winchester Park (9.5 per 1,000 from 18 crimes among 1,901 residents) are places with few residents (under 3,000): a rate on so few people says little about living there, so they are not named as the lowest or highest.

The 22 neighborhoods on the map

Holmesburg is made of 22 neighborhoods compared here, each in its own colour on the map. They are the neighborhoods of OpenDataPhilly (Robert Cheetham, CC BY), grouped into areas of the city by CrimesLog: 320,098 residents between them.

Academy Gardens
Aston-Woodbridge
Bridesburg
Crestmont Farms
Frankford
Harrowgate
Holmesburg
Juniata Park
Lexington Park
Mayfair
Morrell Park
Oxford Circle
Pennypack
Pennypack Park
Pennypack Woods
Rhawnhurst
Richmond
Tacony
Torresdale
West Torresdale
Winchester Park
Wissinoming

All 22 neighborhoods, Q2 2026

Crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026, lowest first. The last two columns compare with Q1 2022.
#	Neighborhood	Residents	All	Violent	Property	Vehicle	Public order	Rate vs Q1 2022	Places gained
1	Crestmont Farms †	252	7.9	0.0	0.0	7.9	0.0	Infinity%	–
2	Aston-Woodbridge	5,869	8.0	2.6	3.2	1.9	0.0	57%	2
3	Winchester Park †	1,901	9.5	1.1	4.7	1.1	0.0	20%	3
4	Morrell Park	9,288	11.0	4.4	3.5	2.5	0.0	76%	1
5	Pennypack Park †	729	12.3	1.4	2.7	1.4	0.0	31%	10
6	Pennypack Woods	4,372	12.8	3.9	5.5	1.8	0.0	331%	4
7	Oxford Circle	51,189	15.4	3.8	7.1	3.9	0.0	10%	4
8	Academy Gardens	3,940	17.0	3.8	5.1	1.5	1.5	34%	1
9	Pennypack	11,738	17.2	2.8	10.2	2.7	0.2	17%	3
10	Lexington Park	4,287	17.3	4.9	7.2	3.7	0.0	64%	2
11	Mayfair	37,349	18.3	3.9	7.8	4.3	0.0	43%	1
12	Torresdale	11,231	18.3	2.9	13.1	1.4	0.3	98%	5
13	Bridesburg	6,492	18.8	5.1	8.8	3.2	0.0	12%	1
14	Holmesburg	23,522	21.1	5.7	9.1	4.2	0.0	10%	3
15	Wissinoming	23,312	21.4	6.1	10.1	3.4	0.1	14%	1
16	Rhawnhurst	27,746	21.8	3.2	13.8	3.5	0.0	48%	3
17	Tacony	18,109	23.0	6.3	8.4	4.4	0.1	2%	3
18	Juniata Park	18,923	23.5	5.5	9.1	6.0	1.2	9%	–
19	Frankford	21,848	36.6	13.1	12.3	4.5	0.4	18%	2
20	Richmond	25,866	55.6	11.2	17.0	4.1	11.2	146%	1
21	Harrowgate	11,859	63.5	20.1	16.9	5.7	10.3	13%	1
22	West Torresdale †	276	68.8	0.0	68.8	0.0	0.0	1802%	19

† Crestmont Farms, West Torresdale, Pennypack Park and Winchester Park are places with few residents. A rate on a very small number of residents or crimes is not comparable with the others.

Photographs

18 photographs of the 22 neighborhoods run along the reel; click one to see it full size. Each is credited here and under the large view.

All 18 photographs and their credits

Pennypack Woods · Greenbelt Knoll. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Pennypack · Into the Woods. Photo: jiwasz, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Mayfair · Mayfair. Photo: Coemgenus at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Torresdale · Glen Foerd at T. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Bridesburg · (1876Exhib) P820 - Philadelphia, BRIDESBURG MANUFACTURING. Photo: unknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Holmesburg · Edwin Forrest Home, Holmesburg, Philadelphia. Photo: H. L. Brown, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Tacony · Ham Disston School Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Port Richmond · Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia. Photo: Wikited at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Mayfair · Mayfairdiner01. Photo: Davidt8, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Holmesburg · Edwin Forrest Home for Actors. Photo: Unknown artistUnknown artist, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Tacony · Tacony_Palmyra (11). Photo: Michael M Stokes, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Port Richmond · Phila FLP Richmond01. Photo: Davidt8, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Mayfair · Mayfairdiner02. Photo: Davidt8, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Tacony · Tacony_Palmyra (3). Photo: Michael M Stokes, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Port Richmond · Philadelphia - Lithuanian Music Hall. Photo: Wikited at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Mayfair · Mayfairdiner03. Photo: Davidt8, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Tacony · The Lardner Mansion, Near Tacony, Above Philadelphia (NYPL B13049823-423548). Photo: Scan by NYPL, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Port Richmond · Port Richmond Philiadelphia Krakus. Photo: Wikited, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Sources and notes

CrimesLog sources crime incident data published by the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) through the City of Philadelphia Open Data Portal (OpenDataPhilly), containing public sector information released under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (public domain).

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Neighborhood boundaries are defined by OpenDataPhilly / Robert Cheetham (CC BY), grouped into areas of the city by CrimesLog and simplified by CrimesLog. The photographs are credited under each picture.

Rates are recorded crimes per 1,000 residents, quarter by quarter; where a neighborhood has fewer than 100 residents the rate would be worked out on 100 (those places are left out of the race). A count of recorded crime is not a verdict on any neighborhood.

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