Oak Lane is a neighborhood of 41,400 residents in Philadelphia, about 7 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Oak Lane in Philadelphia safe?
Oak Lane is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of F, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 96% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade F here. Philadelphia as a whole grades F. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Oak Lane run from D+ to F, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
4% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Oak Lane as a whole, and 96% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Oak Lane 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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Oak Lane, Philadelphia, PA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Oak Lane 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 in Oak Lane
Burglary is a strength. Oak Lane grades F for property crime, but burglary grades A-.
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.
How Oak Lane compares within Philadelphia
Every part of Oak Lane grades D or F on the national scale. Grades across Oak Lane run from D+ to F; every part of Oak Lane has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Oak Lane has less crime than 20 of the 64 neighborhoods in Philadelphia. It covers much of the Germantown, Oak Lane, and Logan-Ogontz-Fern Rock areas.
Crime rates and types in Oak Lane
CrimeGrade™ estimates Oak Lane has about 63 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 70% more than the US as a whole and 26% less than Philadelphia as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Assault is the most common crime in Oak Lane, about 30% of everything reported.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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 crime happens in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Police Department polices Oak Lane; these figures cover Philadelphia as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Philadelphia as a whole, 66% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% 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)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (64%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (52%)
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.
How Oak Lane compares with nearby neighborhoods
Oak Lane has more crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Wyndmoor and Mount Airy have the least crime nearby.
Two things set Oak Lane apart: it has 9 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 3.1 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft and robbery, yet theft and robbery run higher here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.9 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 91% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.3.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 91% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 and assault.B (58 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 70% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 83% 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 crime costs Oak Lane
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Oak Lane about $2,473 a year per household, about double the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $154 million a year, or $3,726 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Oak Lane means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Oak Lane is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
Schools in Oak Lane, Philadelphia, PA average a SchoolGrade of F: 16% of students test proficient, against 17% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Oak Lane on SchoolGrade
