Allegheny Township, Blair County, PA has a C safety grade (53/100) with a violent crime rate of 169 per 100,000, 52% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Allegheny Township, Blair County is a small municipal reporter (6,518 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Allegheny Township, Blair County, PA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 52% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Allegheny Township, Blair County, PA shows violent crime at 168.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,712.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Allegheny Township, Blair County reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,518. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Allegheny Township, Blair County's 168.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Carlisle (168.5), Kutztown (168.0), Grove City (167.8), Norwood (170.2). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
At 168.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Allegheny Township, Blair County ranks 179 of 838 — above 659 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +158.4% against the cohort median of 65.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 4.3% of the 253 Part I offenses reported in Allegheny Township, Blair County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 5.7 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 95.0% of reported property offenses in Allegheny Township, Blair County, against a cohort median of 85.8%. The remainder is burglary (12) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Allegheny Township, Blair County's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,518. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Allegheny Township, Blair County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (91% of 253 offenses; mix index 8,296).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Allegheny Township, Blair County offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 242 | 3712.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 230 | 3528.7 |
| Burglary | 12 | 184.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 11 | 168.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 107.4 |
| Rape | 3 | 46 |
| Murder | 1 | 15.3 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Allegheny Township, Blair County in population. Their populations run from 6,455 to 6,592, against 6,518 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Allegheny Township, Blair County sits at 168.8/100K violent (grade C); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Allegheny Township, Blair County reported 11 violent crimes and 242 property crimes, for a total of 253 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Allegheny Township, Blair County is larceny-theft, accounting for 90.9% of all reported crimes (230 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Allegheny Township, Blair County is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Allegheny Township, Blair County's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Allegheny Township, Blair County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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