2016 FBI Crime Report: Property Crime Rises Slightly In Horsham

HORSHAM, PA — Property crime has risen very slightly in Horsham, while the low violent crime rate remains steady, according to data released by the FBI on Monday.

The data does not include tabulations on crime in 2017.

The information comes from the FBI’s annual report Crime in the United States. The publication is a statistical compilation of offense, arrest, and police employee data reported by law enforcement agencies voluntarily participating in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, according to the FBI.

Violent crimes in Horsham — robberies, aggravated assault, rape, murder and manslaughter — decreased to just ten overall in 2016, according to the FBI. There were two robberies, two incidents of rape, and six aggravated assaults.

There was not a single incident of murder or manslaughter reported in the township from 2014 through 2016.

2016's numbers of 10 violent crimes in Horsham are down from 11 in 2015 and 18 in 2014.

Property crimes, including burglary, larceny, and thefts, increased slightly. There were 230 property crimes reported in 2016, up from 214 in 2015, and 212 in 2014.

This bucks the trend of decreasing property crime in most other municipalities in Montgomery County.

Nationally, the FBI said the 2016 statistics showed an increase in the estimated number of violent crimes, with a 4.1 percent rise when compared with 2015 data. Nationally, property crimes dropped 1.3 percent.

The lowest total number of violent crimes in Montgomery County in 2016 was shared by Limerick, Upper Providence, and Narberth, which each had five incidents. Upper Providence has the largest population, and therefore had the lowest violent crime rate in the county by far. Upper Gwynedd, meanwhile, had one of the lowest property crime rates, with only 64 incidents in a population of nearly 16,000.

The 2016 statistics show the estimated rate of violent crime was 386.3 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants nationally, and the estimated rate of property crime was 2,450.7 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants. The violent crime rate rose 3.4 percent compared with the 2015 rate, and the property crime rate declined 2.0 percent.

The UCR Program report for 2016 included information from 16,782 agencies across the country, out of 18,481 city, county, university and college, state, tribal, and federal agencies eligible to participate, the FBI said.

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