Hanover Township, Luzerne County, PA has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 251 per 100,000, 29% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hanover Township, Luzerne County (11,534 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
Hanover Township, Luzerne County, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 29% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hanover Township, Luzerne County, PA shows violent crime at 251.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 815 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% 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.
Small-count caution
Hanover Township, Luzerne County reported 29 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,534. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 251.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hanover Township, Luzerne County ranks 114 of 838 — above 724 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +284.9% 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 Hanover Township, Luzerne County's 251.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kennett Square (252.6), Middletown (249.2), Wilkes-Barre Township (248.6), Wesleyville (256.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.6% of the 123 Part I offenses reported in Hanover Township, Luzerne County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 13.6 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 counts dominate Hanover Township, Luzerne County'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 29 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,534. 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.
Hanover Township, Luzerne County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 123 offenses; mix index 4,438).
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hanover Township, Luzerne County 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 | 94 | 815 |
| Larceny-Theft | 77 | 667.6 |
| Burglary | 10 | 86.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 60.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 8.7 |
| Violent Crime | 29 | 251.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 | 216.8 |
| Robbery | 3 | 26 |
| Rape | 1 | 8.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Hanover Township, Luzerne County in population. Their populations run from 11,380 to 11,832, against 11,534 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hanover Township, Luzerne County sits at 251.4/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hanover Township, Luzerne County at 251.4/100K violent and 815/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
251.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
815/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Hanover Township, Luzerne County reported 29 violent crimes and 94 property crimes, for a total of 123 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Hanover Township, Luzerne County is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.6% of all reported crimes (77 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hanover Township, Luzerne County 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 Hanover Township, Luzerne County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hanover Township, Luzerne County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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