Plymouth, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 137% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Plymouth, PA shows violent crime at 834.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,911.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 137% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
834.1/100K violent
1911.4/100K property
+137% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Plymouth, PA
Position in the state cohort
Plymouth reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 834.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Plymouth ranks 12 of 838 — above 826 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1176.9% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 30.4% of the 158 Part I offenses reported in Plymouth for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 20.4 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
Plymouth's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Plymouth's 834.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Darby (831.3), Chester (830.8), Steelton (838.3), Arnold (839.8). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 865.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 834.1 in 2024 (-3.6%). The highest observed value was 1252.0 in 2023 and the lowest 834.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Plymouth'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.
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.
Plymouth's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 1.1 Census sq mi, Plymouth logged 102.5 property and 44.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Plymouth's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 158 offenses; mix index 4,537).
Violent offenses are 30% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-33.4%
1252 → 834.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-36.8%
3025.6 → 1911.4/100K
Property offenses lead Plymouth's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
Property Crime
110
1911.4
1457.1
Larceny-Theft
97
1685.5
-
Burglary
11
191.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
2
34.8
-
Arson
1
17.4
-
Violent Crime
48
834.1
249.5
Aggravated Assault
42
729.8
-
Robbery
5
86.9
-
Rape
1
17.4
-
Murder
0
0
-
Plymouth 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.
Plymouth property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Plymouth: 834 violent, 1911 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Wright Township: 17 violent, 383 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Butler Township, Schuylkill County: 35 violent, 345 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Kiskiminetas Township: 18 violent, 526 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Pine Creek Township: 0 violent, 103 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Scott Township, Columbia County: 53 violent, 1288 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Cambria Township: 53 violent, 1060 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Somerset: 359 violent, 444 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Media: 205 violent, 1589 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Plymouth Police Department
Reporting agency for Plymouth Summary Reporting (SRS)
Plymouth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Plymouth's 158 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Plymouth in population. Their populations run from 5,663 to 5,853, against 5,755 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Plymouth reported 48 violent crimes and 110 property crimes, for a total of 158 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Plymouth?
From 2023 to 2024, Plymouth's violent crime rate decreased by 33.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 36.8%.
What is the most common crime in Plymouth?
The most common crime type in Plymouth is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.4% of all reported crimes (97 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Plymouth 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 Plymouth, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.