Duryea, PA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 44% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Duryea, PA shows violent crime at 196.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 491.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% 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.
A safety grade
196.5/100K violent
491.3/100K property
-44% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Duryea, PA
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 61.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 196.5 in 2024 (+217.4%). The highest observed value was 314.8 in 2023 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.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Duryea reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,089. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 28.6% of the 35 Part I offenses reported in Duryea for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 18.6 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.
Comparable rate records
Duryea's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Duryea's 196.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Beaver Falls (196.6), Easton (196.2), Cumberland Township, Greene County (200.8), Eastern Adams Regional (200.9). 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
Duryea reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 196.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Duryea ranks 152 of 838 — above 686 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +200.8% 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 Duryea'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 5,089. 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.
Duryea's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.5 Census sq mi, Duryea logged 4.5 property and 1.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Duryea's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 35 offenses; mix index 4,661).
Violent offenses are 29% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-37.6%
314.8 → 196.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-3.9%
511.5 → 491.3/100K
Property offenses lead Duryea's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
25
491.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
22
432.3
-
Burglary
2
39.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1
19.7
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
10
196.5
352
Aggravated Assault
9
176.9
-
Robbery
1
19.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Duryea Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Duryea property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Duryea: 197 violent, 491 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Birdsboro: 39 violent, 766 property per 100,000 (grade A)
West York: 315 violent, 1439 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Athens Township: 39 violent, 1605 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Bangor: 333 violent, 803 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Manor Township, Armstrong County: 39 violent, 333 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Briar Creek Township: 20 violent, 469 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Fox Chapel: 0 violent, 293 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Duryea Police Department
Reporting agency for Duryea NIBRS-participating
Duryea Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Duryea's 35 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
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In 2024, Duryea reported 10 violent crimes and 25 property crimes, for a total of 35 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Duryea?
From 2023 to 2024, Duryea's violent crime rate decreased by 37.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.9%.
What is the most common crime in Duryea?
The most common crime type in Duryea is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.9% of all reported crimes (22 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Duryea 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Duryea, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.