Kensington, Philadelphia, PA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Kensington is a neighborhood of 20,600 residents in Philadelphia, about 3 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Kensington?
Property crime is high in Kensington: an F, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 97% of Americans live. Theft makes up 48% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C+, and vehicle theft grades F. Philadelphia as a whole grades F for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
3% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Kensington as a whole, and 97% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Kensington scores 0.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Kensington, Philadelphia, PA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Kensington in Philadelphia, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Kensington
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Philadelphia as a whole, 93% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
Car thefts and thefts both run high. In Kensington, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 18.8 car thefts and 47.7 thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 13.1 nationally.
How Kensington compares within Philadelphia
Every part of Kensington grades D or F for property crime on the national scale.
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Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Kensington has less property crime than 13 of the 64 neighborhoods in Philadelphia. It covers much of the Richmond, Frankford, and Juniata Park-Feltonville areas and the North Central, Hunting Park, and Tioga-Nicetown areas.
Property crime rates and types in Kensington
CrimeGrade™ estimates Kensington has about 100 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and 64% more than Philadelphia as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Kensington, about 48% of the total, followed by vandalism and vehicle theft.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Police Department polices Kensington; these figures cover Philadelphia as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Philadelphia as a whole, 66% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 96% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (66%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (96%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (93%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (72%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times; they are over one in five for burglary, car theft, theft from cars, vandalism.
Property crime in Kensington and nearby neighborhoods
Kensington has more property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Pyne Poynt and Richmond have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Kensington. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Kensington has more property crime than 93% of them.
Walkability, empty homes and density in Kensington
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Kensington apart: it has a Walk Grade of A+ (91 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 11.1% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft. 98% of residents here live in walkable areas.A+ (91 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.11.1% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 84% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.95% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Kensington: C+ (41 of 100).34 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Kensington
Property crime costs Kensington about $16 million a year, or $793 per resident and about $1,836 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
