Mahoning Township, Lawrence County, PA has a A+ safety grade (96/100) with a violent crime rate of 38 per 100,000, 89% below the national average.
Mahoning Township, Lawrence County is a small municipal reporter (2,624 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Mahoning Township, Lawrence County, PA carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 89% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mahoning Township, Lawrence County, PA shows violent crime at 38.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 0 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 89% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
The verdict
Mahoning Township, Lawrence County earns an A+ safety grade: violent crime runs 89% below the U.S. average, placing it among the safest cities in the country.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,624. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 100.0% of the 1 Part I offenses reported in Mahoning Township, Lawrence County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 90.0 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
Mahoning Township, Lawrence County reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,624. 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 Mahoning Township, Lawrence County's 38.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Rockledge (38.2), North Huntingdon Township (37.8), Northern Lancaster County Regional (38.5), Carnegie (38.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 38.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mahoning Township, Lawrence County ranks 529 of 838 — above 309 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -42.4% against the cohort median of 66.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Mahoning Township, Lawrence County's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. 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 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,624. 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 1 | 38.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 38.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Larceny-Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Mahoning Township, Lawrence County in population. Their populations run from 2,587 to 2,662, against 2,624 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Mahoning Township, Lawrence County's 38.1/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Small-city read: Mahoning Township, Lawrence 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.
Small-city rate methodology for how Mahoning Township, Lawrence County's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mahoning Township, Lawrence County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Mahoning Township, Lawrence County is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (2,624 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.