Colonial Regional, PA has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 53 per 100,000, 85% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Colonial Regional (18,785 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
Colonial Regional, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 85% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Colonial Regional, PA shows violent crime at 53.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,134.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 85% 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
Colonial Regional reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 18,785. 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 Colonial Regional's 53.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ross Township (53.0), Cambria Township (53.0), Point Township (52.9), New Cumberland (52.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 43.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 53.2 in 2024 (+21.8%). The highest observed value was 53.2 in 2024 and the lowest 31.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 2.4% of the 411 Part I offenses reported in Colonial Regional for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 7.6 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 94.5% of reported property offenses in Colonial Regional, against a cohort median of 85.8%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 53.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Colonial Regional ranks 463 of 838 — above 375 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -19.5% 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 Colonial Regional'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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 18,785. 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.
Colonial Regional's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (92% of 411 offenses; mix index 8,525).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Colonial Regional 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 | 401 | 2134.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 379 | 2017.6 |
| Burglary | 17 | 90.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 26.6 |
| Arson | 2 | 10.6 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 53.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 37.3 |
| Rape | 2 | 10.6 |
| Robbery | 1 | 5.3 |
| 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 | 18,309 | 43.7 | 1447.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 18,325 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 18,933 | 31.7 | 1695.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 18,855 | 47.7 | 2264.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 18,785 | 53.2 | 2134.7 |
Colonial Regional Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Colonial Regional's 411 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 Colonial Regional in population. Their populations run from 18,414 to 19,209, against 18,785 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Colonial Regional sits at 53.2/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Colonial Regional at 53.2/100K violent and 2,134.7/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
53.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,134.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Colonial Regional reported 10 violent crimes and 401 property crimes, for a total of 411 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Colonial Regional's violent crime rate increased by 11.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.7%.
The most common crime type in Colonial Regional is larceny-theft, accounting for 92.2% of all reported crimes (379 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Colonial Regional 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 Colonial Regional's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Colonial Regional, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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