Hempfield Township, Mercer County, PA has a F safety grade (12/100) with a violent crime rate of 745 per 100,000, 112% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Hempfield Township, Mercer County, PA Crime Rate & Safety
Hempfield Township, Mercer County is a small municipal reporter (3,626 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Hempfield Township, Mercer County, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 112% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hempfield Township, Mercer County, PA shows violent crime at 744.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,096 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 112% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
744.6/100K violent
2096/100K property
+112% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hempfield Township, Mercer County, PA
Position in the state cohort
Hempfield Township, Mercer County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 744.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hempfield Township, Mercer County ranks 19 of 838 — above 819 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1040.0% 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.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Hempfield Township, Mercer County reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,626. 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.
Comparable rate records
Hempfield Township, Mercer County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hempfield Township, Mercer County's 744.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Windber (747.2), Millbourne (751.3), Pottstown (737.4), Harrisburg (762.2). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 26.2% of the 103 Part I offenses reported in Hempfield Township, Mercer County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 16.2 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 Hempfield Township, Mercer 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 27 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,626. 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.
Hempfield Township, Mercer County's 2024 municipal footprint
Hempfield Township, Mercer County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 103 offenses; mix index 5,368).
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hempfield Township, Mercer 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.
Property offenses lead Hempfield Township, Mercer County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
Property Crime
76
2096
1457.1
Larceny-Theft
71
1958.1
-
Burglary
5
137.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
0
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
27
744.6
249.5
Aggravated Assault
25
689.5
-
Rape
2
55.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
How Hempfield Township, Mercer County sits among PA peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Hempfield Township, Mercer County: 745 violent, 2096 property per 100,000 (grade F)
St. Clair Borough: 83 violent, 441 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Waynesburg: 137 violent, 357 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Washington Township, Fayette County: 0 violent, 492 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Lancaster Township, Butler County: 0 violent, 55 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Greenfield Township, Blair County: 136 violent, 464 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Coplay: 85 violent, 395 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Lawrence Park Township: 216 violent, 162 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Port Vue: 0 violent, 28 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
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Hempfield Township, Mercer County's closest PA violent-rate matches
Hempfield Township, Mercer County sits at 744.6/100K violent (grade F); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
More about Hempfield Township, Mercer County's 2024 record
How many crimes were reported in Hempfield Township, Mercer County?
In 2024, Hempfield Township, Mercer County reported 27 violent crimes and 76 property crimes, for a total of 103 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Hempfield Township, Mercer County?
The most common crime type in Hempfield Township, Mercer County is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.9% of all reported crimes (71 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Hempfield Township, Mercer County 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 Hempfield Township, Mercer County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.