Butler Township, Luzerne County, PA has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 79 per 100,000, 77% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Butler Township, Luzerne County (10,090 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Butler Township, Luzerne County, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 77% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Butler Township, Luzerne County, PA shows violent crime at 79.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 852.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 77% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Butler Township, Luzerne County reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 10,090. 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 Butler Township, Luzerne County's 79.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Penndel (79.5), Upper Pottsgrove Township (79.1), Millersburg (79.5), Gallitzin Township (79.9). 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 79.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Butler Township, Luzerne County ranks 379 of 838 — above 459 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +21.4% 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.
Property counts dominate Butler Township, Luzerne 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 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 10,090. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Butler Township, Luzerne County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 94 offenses; mix index 5,362).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Butler Township, Luzerne 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 | 86 | 852.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 67 | 664 |
| Burglary | 13 | 128.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 59.5 |
| Arson | 2 | 19.8 |
| Violent Crime | 8 | 79.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 59.5 |
| Robbery | 2 | 19.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Butler Township, Luzerne County in population. Their populations run from 9,885 to 10,255, against 10,090 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Butler Township, Luzerne County sits at 79.3/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Butler Township, Luzerne County at 79.3/100K violent and 852.3/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
79.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
852.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Butler Township, Luzerne County reported 8 violent crimes and 86 property crimes, for a total of 94 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Butler Township, Luzerne County is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.3% of all reported crimes (67 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Butler Township, Luzerne County figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Butler Township, Luzerne County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Butler Township, Luzerne County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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