Jim Thorpe, PA has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 242 per 100,000, 31% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Jim Thorpe is a small municipal reporter (4,538 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Jim Thorpe, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 31% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jim Thorpe, PA shows violent crime at 242.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 881.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 31% 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
Jim Thorpe reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,538. 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Jim Thorpe's 242.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Reynoldsville (242.0), Wilkes-Barre Township (248.6), Sharon Hill (235.6), Middletown (249.2). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 242.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jim Thorpe ranks 117 of 838 — above 721 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +271.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 172.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 242.4 in 2024 (+40.7%). The highest observed value was 306.6 in 2023 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 21.6% of the 51 Part I offenses reported in Jim Thorpe for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 11.6 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 Jim Thorpe'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 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,538. 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 14.6 Census sq mi, Jim Thorpe logged 2.7 property and 0.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Jim Thorpe's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 51 offenses; mix index 5,486).
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Jim Thorpe offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.6 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 | 40 | 881.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 36 | 793.3 |
| Burglary | 3 | 66.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 22 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 11 | 242.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 242.4 |
| 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.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,644 | 172.3 | 990.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 4,637 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,604 | 304.1 | 521.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,566 | 306.6 | 678.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,538 | 242.4 | 881.4 |
Jim Thorpe Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Jim Thorpe's 51 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 Jim Thorpe in population. Their populations run from 4,523 to 4,569, against 4,538 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Jim Thorpe sits at 242.4/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Jim Thorpe reported 11 violent crimes and 40 property crimes, for a total of 51 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Jim Thorpe's violent crime rate decreased by 20.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 29.8%.
The most common crime type in Jim Thorpe is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.6% of all reported crimes (36 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Jim Thorpe 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 Jim Thorpe's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Jim Thorpe, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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