Northampton, PA has a A+ safety grade (94/100) with a violent crime rate of 29 per 100,000, 92% below the national average.
Northampton (10,414 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Northampton, PA carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 92% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Northampton, PA shows violent crime at 28.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 364.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 92% 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
Northampton earns an A+ safety grade: violent crime runs 92% below the U.S. average, placing it among the safest cities in the country.
Based on 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 10,414. 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-count caution
Northampton reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 10,414. 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 Northampton's 28.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Upper Gwynedd Township (28.9), Manor (28.6), Marple Township (29.1), Ambler (29.2). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 50.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 28.8 in 2024 (-43.2%). The highest observed value was 87.4 in 2023 and the lowest 28.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 28.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Northampton ranks 570 of 838 — above 268 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -56.4% 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.
Property counts dominate Northampton'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 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 10,414. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 38 | 364.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 35 | 336.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 28.8 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 28.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 28.8 |
| 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 · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,867 | 50.7 | 679 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 9,847 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,337 | 38.7 | 193.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,298 | 87.4 | 514.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,414 | 28.8 | 364.9 |
Northampton's crime figures on this page originate from Northampton 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Northampton in population. Their populations run from 10,243 to 10,616, against 10,414 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Northampton's 28.8/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: Northampton figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Northampton's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Northampton, 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. Northampton is scored in the mid-size municipal band (10,414 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.