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 FBI UCR + NIBRS
Hempfield Township, Mercer County, PA Crime Rate & Safety
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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 carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 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.
The verdict
Hempfield Township, Mercer County earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 112% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
F
PlainCrime safety grade
+112%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
6th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,096
property crimes per 100K
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.
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.
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 averages
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Hempfield Township, Mercer County in population. Their populations run from 3,534 to 3,713, against 3,626 here. Or use our
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These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Hempfield Township, Mercer County's 744.6/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
What is the crime rate in Hempfield Township, Mercer County, PA? ▼
Hempfield Township, Mercer County has a violent crime rate of 744.6 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2096 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Hempfield Township, Mercer County, PA safe? ▼
Hempfield Township, Mercer County receives a safety grade of F (High Risk), with a safety score of 12/100. The violent crime rate is 112% above the national average and 198% above the Pennsylvania average.
What is the population of Hempfield Township, Mercer County, PA? ▼
The reporting population for Hempfield Township, Mercer County is 3,626 as of 2024.
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.
How do Hempfield Township, Mercer County's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Hempfield Township, Mercer County recorded about one reported offense per 35 residents and one reported violent offense per 134 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
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.