ICYMI: Is Malvern One Of The 100 Most 'Dangerous' Towns In PA?

Editor’s note: this story was previously published in Patch on December 23.

Yet another list has come out, and it isn’t the most flattering.

Roadsnacks, a data compiler website that specializes in creating lists that rate communities on how ”snobby” or “redneck” they are, has now compiled a list that rates the most “dangerous” towns in several states - including Pennsylvania.

Roadsnacks.net, which recently provided a list of N.J. Towns with the highest rate of Ashley Madison ”cheaters,” has compiled the list using FBI crime data, specifically from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report. That report focuses on violent crimes and property crimes.

The study also only considered towns which had a population over 10,000 in 2013, That left a total of 100 towns.

Though the list bills itself as a ranking of the “most dangerous,” that title could be seen as misleading when the raw number of towns analyzed is not that much larger than the number of towns on the list below.

That assumption would be fair. The ranking of suburban communities in southeastern Pennsylvania as among the area’s most “redneck” in October left some scratching their heads. Phoenixville even made the list.

Rather than seeing this latest analysis by Roadsnacks as a hard and fast judge of where you are in the most danger at any given time, it could instead be considered as a way to view the comparative safety - using one particular set of methods - of towns in Pennsylvania.

Several Montgomery County and Chester County towns made the list. Pottstown came in at third overall to lead the local area, followed by Philadelphia (5) and Norristown (17).

Lansdale is ranked 83rd.

Here is the list:

1. Darby
2. New Castle
3. Pottstown
4. Lancaster
5. Philadelphia
6. Chester
7. Washington (Washington County)
8. Uniontown
9. Johnstown
10. York
11. Mckeesport
12. Reading
13. Allentown
14. Chambersburg
15. Williamsport
16. Pittsburgh
17. Berwick
18. Norristown
19. Coatesville
20. Wilkes-Barre
21. Yeadon
22. Erie
23. Stroud
24. Swatara Township
25. New Kensington
26. Lebanon
27. Center Township
28. Scranton
29. Sandy Township
30. Easton
31. Hermitage
32. Caln Township
33. West Chester
34. Upper Darby Township
35. Bethlehem
36. Hanover
37. Upper Chichester Township
38. East Lampeter Township
39. Plymouth Township, Montgomery County
40. Hazleton
41. Muhlenberg Township
42. Whitehall Township
43. Spring Garden Township
44. Wyomissing
45. West Mifflin
46. Cheltenham Township
47. Indiana
48. Bensalem Township
49. Nanticoke
50. Logan Township
51. Lansdowne
52. West Norriton Township
53. Bristol Township
54. Springettsbury Township
55. Columbia
56. Richland Township, Cambria County
57. Altoona
58. West Manchester Township
59. Hanover Township
60. Robinson Township
61. Penn Hills
62. Coal Township
63. North Lebanon Township
64. Munhall
65. South Whitehall Township
66. Waynesboro
67. Meadville
68. Lower Pottsgrove Township
69. Pottsville
70. Phoenixville
71. Kingston
72. Lower Paxton Township
73. Greensburg
74. Pocono Mountain Regional
75. Lancaster Township
76. Bloomsburg Town
77. Ephrata
78. Upper Merion Township
79. North Versailles Township
80. Pocono Township
81. East Norriton Township
82. Ross Township
83. Lansdale
84. Abington Township
85. Derry Township
86. Butler Township
87. Oil City
88. Ridley Township
89. Monroeville
90. Susquehanna Township
91. Middletown Township
92. Northeastern Regional
93. Douglass Township,
94. Lower Southampton Township
95. Penn Township
96. Fairview Township
97. Cumru Township
98. East Hempfield Township
99. Lower Gwynedd Township

100. Lower Providence