Minersville, PA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 36% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Minersville, PA shows violent crime at 226.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 249.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 36% 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.
A safety grade
226.9/100K violent
249.5/100K property
-36% vs U.S.
The verdict
Minersville earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 36% below the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
A
PlainCrime safety grade
-36%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
40th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
249.5
property crimes per 100K
Based on 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,408. 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 Minersville, PA
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 47.6% of the 21 Part I offenses reported in Minersville for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 37.6 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.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Minersville reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,408. 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
Minersville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Minersville's 226.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Honesdale (225.9), Crafton (224.3), North East, Erie County (223.6), Brookville (231.1). 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
Minersville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 226.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Minersville ranks 124 of 838 — above 714 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +247.3% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 72.7% of reported property offenses in Minersville, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (3) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 217.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 226.9 in 2024 (+4.1%). The highest observed value was 226.9 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.
Minersville'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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,408. 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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+232.2%
68.3 → 226.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
+21.8%
204.8 → 249.5/100K
Minersville's 2024 offense mix (violent and property)
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
11
249.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
8
181.5
-
Burglary
3
68.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
0
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
10
226.9
352
Aggravated Assault
10
226.9
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Minersville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Minersville violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
226.9/100K↑232.2%vs 2023
Minersville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
249.5/100K↑21.8%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
4,131
217.9
435.7
27
2021
Insufficient reporting
4,108
-
-
-
2022
Comparable
4,407
181.5
317.7
22
2023
Comparable
4,394
68.3
204.8
12
2024
Comparable
4,408
226.9
249.5
21
How Minersville sits among PA peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Minersville Police Department Summary Reporting (SRS)
Minersville's crime figures on this page originate from Minersville Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Minersville in population. Their populations run from 4,420 to 4,480, against 4,408 here. Or use our
side-by-side compare tool
to benchmark two cities directly.
These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Minersville's 226.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Minersville has a violent crime rate of 226.9 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 249.5 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Minersville, PA safe? ▼
Minersville receives a safety grade of A (Safe), with a safety score of 75/100. The violent crime rate is 36% below the national average and 9% below the Pennsylvania average.
What is the population of Minersville, PA? ▼
The reporting population for Minersville is 4,408 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Minersville? ▼
In 2024, Minersville reported 10 violent crimes and 11 property crimes, for a total of 21 reported offenses.
How do Minersville's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Minersville recorded about one reported offense per 210 residents and one reported violent offense per 441 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Minersville? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Minersville's violent crime rate increased by 232.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 21.8%.
What is the most common crime in Minersville? ▼
The most common crime type in Minersville is aggravated assault, accounting for 47.6% of all reported crimes (10 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Minersville 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 Minersville, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.