Hummelstown, PA has a C safety grade (46/100) with a violent crime rate of 490 per 100,000, 39% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Hummelstown is a small municipal reporter (4,493 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Hummelstown, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 39% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hummelstown, PA shows violent crime at 489.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 623.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 39% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 205.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 489.7 in 2024 (+137.8%). The highest observed value was 489.7 in 2024 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 44.0% of the 50 Part I offenses reported in Hummelstown for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 34.0 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.
Small-count caution
Hummelstown reported 22 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,493. 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 489.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hummelstown ranks 43 of 838 — above 795 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +649.7% 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 Hummelstown's 489.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Moosic (483.8), Butler (501.0), West Homestead (505.1), Pitcairn (473.7). 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 100.0% of reported property offenses in Hummelstown, against a cohort median of 85.8%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Hummelstown's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 22 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,493. 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.
Across 1.2 Census sq mi, Hummelstown logged 22.5 property and 17.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hummelstown's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (56% of 50 offenses; mix index 5,072).
Violent offenses are 44% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Hummelstown offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.2 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 | 28 | 623.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 28 | 623.2 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 22 | 489.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 489.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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.
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,857 | 205.9 | 679.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 4,844 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,514 | 66.5 | 221.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,523 | 176.9 | 663.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,493 | 489.7 | 623.2 |
Hummelstown Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hummelstown's 50 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 Hummelstown in population. Their populations run from 4,467 to 4,532, against 4,493 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hummelstown sits at 489.7/100K violent (grade C); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Hummelstown reported 22 violent crimes and 28 property crimes, for a total of 50 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hummelstown's violent crime rate increased by 176.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6%.
The most common crime type in Hummelstown is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.0% of all reported crimes (28 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Hummelstown 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.
Small-city rate methodology for how Hummelstown's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hummelstown, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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