Hazleton, PA has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 233 per 100,000, 34% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hazleton (30,079 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 2026-08-24
Hazleton, PA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 34% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hazleton, PA shows violent crime at 232.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 492 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 34% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 32.1% of the 218 Part I offenses reported in Hazleton for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 22.1 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hazleton's 232.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Southwest Greensburg (231.7), Tunkhannock (231.3), Brookville (231.1), Sharon Hill (235.6). 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 232.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hazleton ranks 120 of 838 — above 718 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +256.3% 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 60.8% of reported property offenses in Hazleton, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (30) and motor vehicle theft (28). 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 287.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 232.7 in 2024 (-19.0%). The highest observed value was 287.1 in 2020 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.
Property counts dominate Hazleton'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 6 Census sq mi, Hazleton logged 24.8 property and 11.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hazleton leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,724.
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hazleton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6 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 | 148 | 492 |
| Larceny-Theft | 90 | 299.2 |
| Burglary | 30 | 99.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 28 | 93.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.3 |
| Violent Crime | 70 | 232.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 55 | 182.9 |
| Robbery | 11 | 36.6 |
| Rape | 4 | 13.3 |
| 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 · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 24,726 | 287.1 | 841.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 24,750 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 30,083 | 232.7 | 993.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 30,035 | 259.7 | 532.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 30,079 | 232.7 | 492 |
Hazleton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hazleton's 218 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 Hazleton in population. Their populations run from 28,506 to 31,761, against 30,079 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hazleton sits at 232.7/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hazleton at 232.7/100K violent and 492/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
232.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
492/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-10.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Hazleton reported 70 violent crimes and 148 property crimes, for a total of 218 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hazleton's violent crime rate decreased by 10.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.6%.
The most common crime type in Hazleton is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.3% of all reported crimes (90 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hazleton 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 Hazleton's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hazleton, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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