Mount Airy, Philadelphia, PA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Mount Airy is a neighborhood of 31,400 residents in Philadelphia, about 7 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Mount Airy?
Violent crime is high in Mount Airy: a D, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 92% 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 216 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
8% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Mount Airy as a whole, and 92% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Mount Airy scores 216.
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 Mount Airy, Philadelphia, PA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Mount Airy 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 Mount Airy
Robbery at more than double the US rate. Mount Airy has 1.7 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How Mount Airy compares within Philadelphia
Violent crime changes a lot from one part of Mount Airy to the next: 37% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 51% live in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Mount Airy run from A to F.
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A or B 37%C 12%D or F 51%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Mount Airy has less violent crime than 33 of the 64 neighborhoods in Philadelphia. It covers much of the Mount Airy, Roxborough, and Chestnut Hill areas.
Violent crime rates and types in Mount Airy
CrimeGrade™ estimates Mount Airy has about 17 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 29% more than the US as a whole and 28% less 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 Mount Airy, 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 Mount Airy; 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 Mount Airy and nearby neighborhoods
Mount Airy has less violent crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Mount Airy. 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, Mount Airy has more violent crime than 81% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Mount Airy apart: it has 13 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and a Walk Grade of B (60 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places with few jobs tend to report less robbery, yet robbery runs higher here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.13 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 83% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.22% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 82% 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 assault.B (60 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 72% 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 Mount Airy: C (34 of 100).17 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 68% 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 Mount Airy
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Mount Airy about $72 million a year, or $2,306 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $15 million, or $464 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. Mount Airy 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.
