Punxsutawney, PA has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 162 per 100,000, 54% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Punxsutawney is a small municipal reporter (5,563 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Punxsutawney, PA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 54% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Punxsutawney, PA shows violent crime at 161.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 611.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 54% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 70.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 161.8 in 2024 (+129.7%). The highest observed value was 287.1 in 2023 and the lowest 52.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Punxsutawney reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,563. 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 Punxsutawney's 161.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kidder Township (161.9), Harmony Township (161.5), Curwensville (161.2), Frazer Township (159.6). 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 161.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Punxsutawney ranks 190 of 838 — above 648 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +147.7% 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 are 20.9% of the 43 Part I offenses reported in Punxsutawney for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 10.9 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.
Property counts dominate Punxsutawney'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 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,563. 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.
Across 3.4 Census sq mi, Punxsutawney logged 10.1 property and 2.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Punxsutawney's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 43 offenses; mix index 5,603).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Punxsutawney offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 34 | 611.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 31 | 557.3 |
| Burglary | 3 | 53.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 18 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 161.8 |
| Rape | 8 | 143.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 18 |
| Murder | 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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,678 | 70.4 | 722.1 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 5,638 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,683 | 52.8 | 176 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,573 | 287.1 | 287.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,563 | 161.8 | 611.2 |
Punxsutawney Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Punxsutawney's 43 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Punxsutawney in population. Their populations run from 5,487 to 5,642, against 5,563 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Punxsutawney sits at 161.8/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Punxsutawney reported 9 violent crimes and 34 property crimes, for a total of 43 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Punxsutawney's violent crime rate decreased by 43.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 112.9%.
The most common crime type in Punxsutawney is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.1% of all reported crimes (31 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Punxsutawney 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 Punxsutawney's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Punxsutawney, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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