Brewerytown, Philadelphia, PA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Brewerytown is a neighborhood of 13,300 residents in Philadelphia, about 2 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Brewerytown?
Violent crime is high in Brewerytown: an F, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 98% of Americans live. Assaults make up 88% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Philadelphia as a whole grades D- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
2% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Brewerytown as a whole, and 98% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Brewerytown 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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Brewerytown, Philadelphia, PA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Brewerytown 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 violent crime in Brewerytown
Robbery at more than triple the US rate. Brewerytown has 3.2 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How Brewerytown compares within Philadelphia
High violent crime is widespread across Brewerytown: 93% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 1% in areas graded A or B. Violent crime grades across Brewerytown run from B- to F.
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A or B 1%C 6%D or F 93%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Brewerytown has less violent crime than 15 of the 64 neighborhoods in Philadelphia. It covers much of the Wynnefield, Morris Park, and Haddington-Carroll Park areas.
Violent crime rates and types in Brewerytown
CrimeGrade™ estimates Brewerytown has about 32 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 34% more than Philadelphia as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Brewerytown, about 88% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Police Department polices Brewerytown; these figures cover Philadelphia as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Philadelphia as a whole, 35% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 64% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
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.
Violent crime in Brewerytown and nearby neighborhoods
Brewerytown has less violent crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Brewerytown. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Brewerytown has more violent crime than 91% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Brewerytown apart: it has a Walk Grade of A (87 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 13 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Very walkable places tend to report more assault, 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 assault. 95% of residents here live in walkable areas.A (87 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 90% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.13 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower 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 robbery.95% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 80% 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 robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Brewerytown: C+ (43 of 100).32 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 80% 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 violent crime costs Brewerytown
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Brewerytown about $61 million a year, or $4,581 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $12 million, or $907 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
