Decision-support ranking comparing Pennsylvania cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Oliver Violent Crime has increased 33% since 2023. |
9.3 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Philadelphia Violent Crime has increased 20% since 2021. |
9.0 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Harrisburg Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2023. |
6.7 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Coatesville Violent Crime moved up by 5.8 / 1k from 0.0 / 1k in 2022 to 5.8 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
5.8 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Pittsburgh Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
4.1 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Erie Violent Crime moved up by 2.9 / 1k from 0.9 / 1k in 2021 to 3.8 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
3.8 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Lancaster Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
3.8 / 1k | → |
| 8 | West Mifflin Violent Crime moved up by 2.8 / 1k from 0.6 / 1k in 2022 to 3.4 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
3.4 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Altoona Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
3.3 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Reading Violent Crime has increased 63% since 2022. |
3.1 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Scranton Violent Crime has declined 18% since 2021. |
2.7 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Bethlehem Violent Crime moved up by 2.5 / 1k from 0.2 / 1k in 2022 to 2.7 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
2.7 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Allentown Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
2.4 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Waynesboro Violent Crime has increased 40% since 2021. |
2.1 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Carlisle Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2021. |
2.0 / 1k | → |
| 16 | Kennett Square Violent Crime has increased 73% since 2023. |
1.9 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Brentwood Violent Crime has increased 70% since 2022. |
1.7 / 1k | → |
| 18 | Shippensburg Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021. |
1.4 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Etna Violent Crime moved up by 0.6 / 1k from 0.6 / 1k in 2022 to 1.2 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
1.2 / 1k | → |
| 20 | Camp Hill Violent Crime moved up by 0.4 / 1k from 0.5 / 1k in 2021 to 0.9 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 21 | Whitehall Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 22 | New Cumberland Violent Crime has declined 36% since 2021. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 23 | New Hope Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
0.8 / 1k | → |
| 24 | Phoenixville Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
0.7 / 1k | → |
| 25 | Palmyra Violent Crime moved up by 0.1 / 1k from 0.3 / 1k in 2021 to 0.4 / 1k in 2023. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.4 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Pennsylvania cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.