Cresson, PA has a A safety grade (86/100) with a violent crime rate of 136 per 100,000, 61% below the national average.
Cresson's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,474). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to PA and U.S. averages.
Cresson, PA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 61% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cresson, PA shows violent crime at 135.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 67.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 61% 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.
The verdict
Cresson earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 61% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
Based on 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,474. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 66.7% of the 3 Part I offenses reported in Cresson for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 56.7 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.
Small-count caution
Cresson reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,474. 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 Cresson's 135.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Franklin Township, Carbon County (135.7), North Versailles Township (135.6), Lansdowne (135.5), Waynesboro (135.4). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 135.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cresson ranks 234 of 838 — above 604 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +107.7% 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 100.0% of reported property offenses in Cresson, against a cohort median of 85.8%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 130.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 135.7 in 2024 (+4.3%). The highest observed value was 135.7 in 2024 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.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Cresson's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,474. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 2 | 135.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2 | 135.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 1 | 67.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1 | 67.8 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,537 | 130.1 | 1171.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,515 | 0 | 132 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,493 | 0 | 267.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,490 | 67.1 | 268.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,474 | 135.7 | 67.8 |
Cresson's crime figures on this page originate from Cresson Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Cresson in population. Their populations run from 1,451 to 1,495, against 1,474 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Cresson's 135.7/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Micro-municipal read: Cresson's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Cresson's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cresson, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Cresson is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (1,474 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.