Forks Township Named to 10 Safest Cities in Pennsylvania

Forks Township has been named to a list of the 10 safest cities in Pennsylvania from real estate website Movoto.com.

Forks Township made the list, coming in at No. 10. Movoto.com noticed a drastic change in the cities listed compared to 2014, stating the only location that made the list for two years running was Franklin Park in Allegheny County.

According to the list, Forks Township had just three violent crimes in the entire 2012 calendar year, giving it the eighth fewest violent crimes per person. Additionally, Forks had 125 property crimes, placing it at 32nd fewest per person, and giving the township a total of 128 for the year. Out of more than 200 locations, Forks had the 29th fewest crimes per person, according to Movoto.com.

In calculating the safest cities, the website used the 2013 FBI Uniform Crime Report, looking at all of the locations with populations of 10,00 or more in Pennsylvania. According to the list of safest cities, Movoto then weighed the populations with the following crimes: murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, thefts and vehicle theft.

The aforementioned crimes were then divided into four categories: murders, violent crimes, property crimes and total crimes. After omitting areas that did not report to the FBI in 2013, Movoto’s math resulted in 214 locations across Pennsylvania.

After the crime per capita was calculated for each municipality, the locations were then ranked with a score from one to 214, with the lower scores being the safer places. Next, the website took those rankings so that murders, violent crimes, and property crimes each made up 30 percent of the overall score, where the total number of crimes accounted for just 10 percent, Movoto.com said. Finally, the agency averaged those weighted rankings into one overall “Big Deal Score.”

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