Mount Pleasant Township, PA has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 179 per 100,000, 49% below the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city

Mount Pleasant Township, PA Crime Rate & Safety

Mount Pleasant Township is a small municipal reporter (3,349 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.

Data updated 2026-09-05

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Safety grade
358.3
Property / 100K
179.2
Violent / 100K
3K
Population

Mount Pleasant Township, PA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 49% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Pleasant Township, PA shows violent crime at 179.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 358.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 49% 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
  • 179.2/100K violent
  • 358.3/100K property
  • -49% vs U.S.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mount Pleasant Township, PA

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Mount Pleasant Township reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,349. 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.

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 33.3% of the 18 Part I offenses reported in Mount Pleasant Township for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 23.3 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.

Comparable rate records

Mount Pleasant Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mount Pleasant Township's 179.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Tarentum (179.9), York County Regional (178.3), Edinboro (178.1), Blakely (180.3). 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

Mount Pleasant Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities

At 179.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Pleasant Township ranks 168 of 838 — above 670 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +174.3% 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 75.0% of reported property offenses in Mount Pleasant Township, 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.

Property counts dominate Mount Pleasant Township'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 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,349. 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.

Mount Pleasant Township's 2024 municipal footprint

Mount Pleasant Township leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,333.

Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.

Mount Pleasant Township offense mix (2024)

Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.

Property rate moved most (2023→2024)

Property Crime Rate
+297.7%
90.1 → 358.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+49.1%
120.2 → 179.2/100K

Property offenses lead Mount Pleasant Township's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 12 358.3
Larceny-Theft 9 268.7
Burglary 3 89.6
Motor Vehicle Theft 0 0
Arson 0 0
Violent Crime 6 179.2
Aggravated Assault 4 119.4
Murder 1 29.9
Rape 1 29.9
Robbery 0 0

Mount Pleasant Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Mount Pleasant Township property crime rate trend

Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
358.3/100K 297.7% vs 2023
0100200300400 20202021202220232024 358

Mount Pleasant Township violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
179.2/100K 49.1% vs 2023
050100150200 20202021202220232024 179
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 3,517 0 312.8
2021 Comparable 3,534 0 0
2022 Comparable 3,315 30.2 150.8
2023 Comparable 3,329 120.2 90.1
2024 Comparable 3,349 179.2 358.3

Mount Pleasant Township Police Department

Reporting agency for Mount Pleasant Township Summary Reporting (SRS)

Mount Pleasant Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mount Pleasant Township's 18 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).

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 Mount Pleasant Township in population. Their populations run from 3,314 to 3,413, against 3,349 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

More about Mount Pleasant Township's 2024 record

How many crimes were reported in Mount Pleasant Township?

In 2024, Mount Pleasant Township reported 6 violent crimes and 12 property crimes, for a total of 18 reported offenses.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mount Pleasant Township?

From 2023 to 2024, Mount Pleasant Township's violent crime rate increased by 49.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 297.7%.

What is the most common crime in Mount Pleasant Township?

The most common crime type in Mount Pleasant Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (9 incidents in 2024).

Small-city read: Mount Pleasant Township 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.

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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mount Pleasant Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.

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