Bradford, PA has a F safety grade (6/100) with a violent crime rate of 843 per 100,000, 140% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Bradford is a small municipal reporter (7,471 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Bradford, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 140% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bradford, PA shows violent crime at 843.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,703.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 140% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 843.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bradford ranks 9 of 838 — above 829 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1191.0% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bradford's 843.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Arnold (839.8), Steelton (838.3), Plymouth (834.1), Darby (831.3). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.8% of the 265 Part I offenses reported in Bradford for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 13.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 809.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 843.3 in 2024 (+4.1%). The highest observed value was 1083.8 in 2023 and the lowest 809.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Bradford'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.
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.
Across 3.3 Census sq mi, Bradford logged 60.7 property and 18.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bradford's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 265 offenses; mix index 5,596).
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Bradford offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.3 sq mi); 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 | 202 | 2703.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 189 | 2529.8 |
| Burglary | 7 | 93.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 80.3 |
| Arson | 1 | 13.4 |
| Violent Crime | 63 | 843.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 59 | 789.7 |
| Rape | 2 | 26.8 |
| Robbery | 2 | 26.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,150 | 809.8 | 1852.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,086 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,635 | 929.9 | 3104.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,566 | 1083.8 | 3106 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,471 | 843.3 | 2703.8 |
Bradford Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bradford's 265 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Bradford in population. Their populations run from 7,368 to 7,598, against 7,471 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bradford sits at 843.3/100K violent (grade F); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Bradford reported 63 violent crimes and 202 property crimes, for a total of 265 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bradford's violent crime rate decreased by 22.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.9%.
The most common crime type in Bradford is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.3% of all reported crimes (189 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Bradford 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 Bradford's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bradford, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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