Easton, PA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 44% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Easton, PA shows violent crime at 196.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,190.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
196.2/100K violent
1190.8/100K property
-44% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Easton, PA
Comparable rate records
Easton's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Easton's 196.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Duryea (196.5), Beaver Falls (196.6), 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
Easton reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 196.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Easton ranks 153 of 838 — above 685 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +200.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 279.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 196.2 in 2024 (-29.7%). The highest observed value was 279.1 in 2020 and the lowest 36.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 14.1% of the 417 Part I offenses reported in Easton for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 4.1 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 counts dominate Easton'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Easton's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.3 Census sq mi, Easton logged 84 property and 13.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Easton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 417 offenses; mix index 4,918).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+21.4%
161.6 → 196.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
+19.3%
998.2 → 1190.8/100K
Property offenses lead Easton's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
358
1190.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
281
934.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
64
212.9
-
Burglary
13
43.2
-
Arson
1
3.3
-
Violent Crime
59
196.2
352
Aggravated Assault
47
156.3
-
Robbery
8
26.6
-
Rape
4
13.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
Easton 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.
Easton property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Easton Police Department
Reporting agency for Easton Summary Reporting (SRS)
Easton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Easton's 417 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
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In 2024, Easton reported 59 violent crimes and 358 property crimes, for a total of 417 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Easton?
From 2023 to 2024, Easton's violent crime rate increased by 21.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 19.3%.
What is the most common crime in Easton?
The most common crime type in Easton is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.4% of all reported crimes (281 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Easton 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Easton, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.