Coal Township, PA has a A safety grade (82/100) with a violent crime rate of 62 per 100,000, 82% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Coal Township is a small municipal reporter (9,616 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Coal Township, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 82% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Coal Township, PA shows violent crime at 62.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,341.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 82% 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
Coal Township reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 9,616. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 39.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 62.4 in 2024 (+59.0%). The highest observed value was 149.8 in 2022 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Coal Township's 62.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Canonsburg (62.6), Bethel Township, Delaware County (62.2), Muhlenberg Township (63.1), East Greenville (63.4). 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 4.4% of the 135 Part I offenses reported in Coal Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 5.6 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 62.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Coal Township ranks 430 of 838 — above 408 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -5.7% against the cohort median of 66.1. 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 Coal Township'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 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 9,616. 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.
Coal Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 135 offenses; mix index 7,264).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Coal Township 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 | 129 | 1341.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 114 | 1185.5 |
| Burglary | 15 | 156 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 6 | 62.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 41.6 |
| Rape | 1 | 10.4 |
| Robbery | 1 | 10.4 |
| 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 · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,192 | 39.2 | 1383.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 9,969 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,011 | 149.8 | 1048.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,147 | 76.5 | 1432.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,616 | 62.4 | 1341.5 |
Coal Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Coal Township's 135 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 Coal Township in population. Their populations run from 9,587 to 9,671, against 9,616 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Coal Township sits at 62.4/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Coal Township reported 6 violent crimes and 129 property crimes, for a total of 135 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Coal Township's violent crime rate decreased by 18.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.3%.
The most common crime type in Coal Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 84.4% of all reported crimes (114 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Coal Township 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 Coal Township's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Coal Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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