Greensburg, PA has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 269 per 100,000, 24% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Greensburg (14,504 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
Greensburg, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 24% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Greensburg, PA shows violent crime at 268.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 641.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 24% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 163.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 268.9 in 2024 (+64.0%). The highest observed value was 268.9 in 2024 and the lowest 150.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 29.5% of the 132 Part I offenses reported in Greensburg for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 19.5 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 268.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Greensburg ranks 106 of 838 — above 732 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +311.7% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Greensburg's 268.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Danville (267.8), Dickson City (266.9), Penn Township, York County (271.5), Oxford (271.9). 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.
Property counts dominate Greensburg'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.
Across 4 Census sq mi, Greensburg logged 23 property and 9.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Greensburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 132 offenses; mix index 4,431).
Violent offenses are 30% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Greensburg offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4 sq mi); 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 | 93 | 641.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 80 | 551.6 |
| Burglary | 7 | 48.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 41.4 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 39 | 268.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 241.3 |
| Robbery | 3 | 20.7 |
| Rape | 1 | 6.9 |
| 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 | 14,030 | 163.9 | 1682.1 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 14,004 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 14,856 | 201.9 | 1258.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 14,602 | 150.7 | 1075.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,504 | 268.9 | 641.2 |
Greensburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Greensburg's 132 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 Greensburg in population. Their populations run from 14,295 to 14,775, against 14,504 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Greensburg sits at 268.9/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Greensburg at 268.9/100K violent and 641.2/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
268.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
641.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Greensburg reported 39 violent crimes and 93 property crimes, for a total of 132 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Greensburg's violent crime rate increased by 78.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 40.4%.
The most common crime type in Greensburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.6% of all reported crimes (80 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Greensburg 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 Greensburg's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Greensburg, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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