Salem Township, Luzerne County, PA has a A safety grade (88/100) with a violent crime rate of 74 per 100,000, 79% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Salem Township, Luzerne County is a small municipal reporter (4,049 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Salem Township, Luzerne County, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 79% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Salem Township, Luzerne County, PA shows violent crime at 74.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 568 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 79% 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.
Small-count caution
Salem Township, Luzerne County reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,049. 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 Salem Township, Luzerne County's 74.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Emmaus (74.1), Franklin Park (74.0), Spring Township, Berks County (73.7), Manheim Township (74.5). 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 74.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Salem Township, Luzerne County ranks 392 of 838 — above 446 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +13.4% 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 counts dominate Salem Township, Luzerne County'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 4,049. 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.
Salem Township, Luzerne County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 26 offenses; mix index 6,716).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Salem Township, Luzerne County 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 23 | 568 |
| Larceny-Theft | 21 | 518.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 49.4 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 74.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 74.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Salem Township, Luzerne County in population. Their populations run from 4,018 to 4,107, against 4,049 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Salem Township, Luzerne County sits at 74.1/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Salem Township, Luzerne County reported 3 violent crimes and 23 property crimes, for a total of 26 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Salem Township, Luzerne County is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.8% of all reported crimes (21 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Salem Township, Luzerne County 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 Salem Township, Luzerne County's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Salem Township, Luzerne County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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