Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Neighborhood crime trends

Philadelphia North

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

17 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 North averaged 19.4, hence it is generally safer when all crimes are considered.

How do the 17 neighborhoods of North compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 6,124 crimes across them, 19.4 for every 1,000 residents. That is 3.0% above a year earlier and 17.5% above Q1 2022, the first quarter we track.

Burholme has the lowest rate of the everyday neighborhoods (10.9 per 1,000), followed by Melrose Park Gardens (13.8) and East Oak Lane (14.8). Logan has the highest (30.3).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 17 PHILADELPHIA NORTH 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

Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the most populous city in Pennsylvania and is known for its culture, cuisine, and history. The neighborhoods covered here lie in the city's northern sections, described in the sources as North Philadelphia, the Northeast and the Northwest. Olney, Logan and East Oak Lane are in North Philadelphia, while Rhawnhurst is in the Northeast.

Notable neighborhoods in Philadelphia North include:

Olney and Logan. Olney is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section. It is roughly bounded by Feltonville to the south, Lawncrest to the east, East Oak Lane to the north and Logan to the west. Portions of Olney serve as major commercial centers for surrounding areas. Logan lies in upper North Philadelphia, and the Olney Transportation Center is located there.

West Oak Lane and Rhawnhurst. In the mid-1800s, Joseph Wharton, founder of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, owned much of West Oak Lane. Rhawnhurst is a residential neighborhood in the Northeast, named for George and William Rhawn by area real estate developers. Its geographic center is at Castor Avenue and Rhawn Street.

Lowest rate (everyday)

Burholme

10.9 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

Logan

30.3 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

19.4 per 1,000

3.0% above a year earlier ·

17.5% above Q1 2022

Compared

17 neighborhoods

315,693 residents · 18 quarters

Philadelphia North 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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East Oak Lane Twilight, East Oak Lane — **East Oak Lane** · East Oak Lane Twilight
Photo: brillianthues, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

Wagner Jr HS Philly, West Oak Lane — **West Oak Lane** · Wagner Jr HS Philly
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Frankford-Avenue-Bridge, Fox Chase — **Fox Chase** · Frankford-Avenue-Bridge
Photo: The original uploader was Coemgenus at English Wikipedia., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Olney Elementary Philly, Olney — **Olney** · Olney Elementary Philly
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Mt Airy Station, Mount Airy, East — **Mount Airy, East** · Mt Airy Station
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Howe School Philly B, Fern Rock — **Fern Rock** · Howe School Philly B
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Pennel School Philly, Ogontz — **Ogontz** · Pennel School Philly
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Frank Synogue Philly, Logan — **Logan** · Frank Synogue Philly
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

How neighborhoods moved each quarter

2022

Whole-area crime rate 16.5 to 19.8 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2022).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Summerdale 12th→3rd (Q2) moved down Melrose Park Gardens 1st→5th (Q2) East Oak Lane 6th→10th (Q3) East Oak Lane 10th→5th (Q4)

2023

Whole-area crime rate 19.7 to 22.6 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2023).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Fox Chase 7th→2nd (Q1) Oxford Circle 8th→4th (Q1) moved down Melrose Park Gardens 2nd→6th (Q1) Rhawnhurst 12th→7th (Q1) Summerdale 3rd→10th (Q1) East Oak Lane 8th→2nd (Q2) Burholme 1st→6th (Q2) Rhawnhurst 7th→11th (Q2) Mount Airy, East 8th→4th (Q3) Olney 12th→8th (Q3) Melrose Park Gardens 5th→10th (Q3) moved up Melrose Park Gardens 10th→4th (Q4) moved down East Oak Lane 2nd→6th (Q4)

2024

Whole-area crime rate 17.2 to 20.8 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2024).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Olney 9th→5th (Q1) moved down Burholme 3rd→12th (Q1) Olney 5th→9th (Q2) Summerdale 8th→3rd (Q3) Burholme 10th→4th (Q3) West Oak Lane 9th→5th (Q4) Burholme 4th→9th (Q4)

2025

Whole-area crime rate 15.5 to 20.2 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2025).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved down Melrose Park Gardens 2nd→7th (Q1) moved up Melrose Park Gardens 7th→1st (Q2) Burholme 6th→2nd (Q2) Cedarbrook 1st→9th (Q2) Summerdale 7th→2nd (Q3) Cedarbrook 9th→5th (Q3) East Oak Lane 4th→8th (Q3) Germantown, East 16th→11th (Q3) East Oak Lane 8th→4th (Q4) Melrose Park Gardens 3rd→8th (Q4)

2026

Whole-area crime rate 14.6 to 19.4 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Fox Chase 7th→3rd (Q1) Melrose Park Gardens 11th→2nd (Q2) moved down Fox Chase 3rd→7th (Q2) Summerdale 2nd→9th (Q2) Fern Rock 15th→11th (Q2)

Reported Safety Incidents

In Q2 2026: property incidents were 47% (2,858), violent incidents were 26% (1,618), vehicle crimes were 19% (1,144) and public order incidents were 0% (29).

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: Q3 2022: vehicle up 44% while the total moved 7%; Q4 2022: vehicle up 25% while the total moved 1%. The whole-area rate is the steadier guide.

Places we left out, and places to read with care

No place is left out: every neighborhood in this race has residents to count.

Crescentville (202.1 per 1,000 from 98 crimes among 485 residents) is a place with few residents (under 3,000): a rate on so few people says little about living there, so it is not named as the lowest or highest.

The 17 neighborhoods on the map

North is made of 17 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: 315,693 residents between them.

Burholme
Cedarbrook
Crescentville
East Oak Lane
Fern Rock
Fox Chase
Germantown, East
Lawndale
Logan
Melrose Park Gardens
Mount Airy, East
Ogontz
Olney
Oxford Circle
Rhawnhurst
Summerdale
West Oak Lane

All 17 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	Burholme	4,587	10.9	2.6	4.4	3.5	0.0	2%	2
2	Melrose Park Gardens	3,985	13.8	2.5	7.0	3.5	0.0	49%	1
3	East Oak Lane	10,772	14.8	3.6	6.8	3.7	0.0	17%	2
4	Cedarbrook	12,101	15.0	4.9	5.5	3.0	0.1	54%	2
5	West Oak Lane	40,906	15.3	4.3	6.3	3.6	0.0	8%	2
6	Oxford Circle	51,189	15.4	3.8	7.1	3.9	0.0	10%	–
7	Fox Chase	20,777	15.4	2.5	7.8	3.4	0.0	37%	3
8	Olney	39,802	16.2	5.0	6.5	3.5	0.3	6%	2
9	Summerdale	8,351	16.5	5.0	6.7	3.4	0.1	4%	3
10	Mount Airy, East	18,426	19.6	5.9	7.5	4.3	0.2	31%	1
11	Fern Rock	5,640	19.7	7.3	7.3	2.5	0.0	39%	4
12	Rhawnhurst	27,746	21.8	3.2	13.8	3.5	0.0	48%	4
13	Ogontz	14,331	22.5	8.7	8.9	2.7	0.3	24%	–
14	Germantown, East	12,379	28.3	10.1	9.1	3.5	0.2	19%	–
15	Lawndale	23,521	29.2	4.3	20.8	2.9	0.0	84%	4
16	Logan	20,695	30.3	10.8	10.9	5.2	0.2	11%	–
17	Crescentville †	485	202.1	51.5	113.4	22.7	0.0	2%	–

† Crescentville is a place with few residents. A rate on a very small number of residents or crimes is not comparable with the others.

Photographs

26 photographs of the 17 neighborhoods run along the reel; click one to see it full size. Each is credited here and under the large view.

All 26 photographs and their credits

East Oak Lane · East Oak Lane Twilight. Photo: brillianthues, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
West Oak Lane · Wagner Jr HS Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Fox Chase · Frankford-Avenue-Bridge. Photo: The original uploader was Coemgenus at English Wikipedia., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Olney · Olney Elementary Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Mount Airy, East · Mt Airy Station. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Fern Rock · Howe School Philly B. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Ogontz · Pennel School Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Logan · Frank Synogue Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
West Oak Lane · Ogontz Hall Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Fox Chase · Kennedy Crossan School Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Olney · Finletter School Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Mount Airy, East · EC Emlen School Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Fern Rock · Howe School Philly A. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Ogontz · Suffolk Manor Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Logan · Birney School Philly B. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
West Oak Lane · Kinsey School Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Olney · JR Lowell School Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Mount Airy, East · Cliveden Markers Germantown Avenue 2026-06-19. Photo: Kreuz und quer, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Fern Rock · Fern Rock Theater, 1928-92, 6017 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia. Photo: Scavenger49, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
West Oak Lane · Rowen School Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Olney · Olney HS Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Mount Airy, East · Grace Epiphany Mt Airy. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Fern Rock · Fern Rock Theater 1928-92, 6017 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia. Photo: Scavenger49, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Olney · Morrison School Philly. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Olney · Phila Broad Street Subway Olney Station 1. Photo: Goosefriend, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Olney · Colney Theater 1925-58, 5721 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia. Photo: Scavenger49, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

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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