Scott Township, Columbia County, PA has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 53 per 100,000, 85% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Scott Township, Columbia County is a small municipal reporter (5,670 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Scott Township, Columbia County, PA is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 85% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Scott Township, Columbia County, PA shows violent crime at 52.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,287.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 85% 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
Scott Township, Columbia County reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,670. 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 Scott Township, Columbia County's 52.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are New Cumberland (52.9), Point Township (52.9), West Pottsgrove Township (52.9), Cambria Township (53.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 3.9% of the 76 Part I offenses reported in Scott Township, Columbia County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 6.1 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 97.3% of reported property offenses in Scott Township, Columbia County, against a cohort median of 85.8%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 52.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Scott Township, Columbia County ranks 467 of 838 — above 370 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -20.0% 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 Scott Township, Columbia 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 5,670. 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.
Scott Township, Columbia County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (93% of 76 offenses; mix index 8,740).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Scott Township, Columbia 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 | 73 | 1287.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 71 | 1252.2 |
| Burglary | 1 | 17.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 17.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 52.9 |
| Rape | 2 | 35.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 17.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Scott Township, Columbia County in population. Their populations run from 5,605 to 5,747, against 5,670 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Scott Township, Columbia County sits at 52.9/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Scott Township, Columbia County reported 3 violent crimes and 73 property crimes, for a total of 76 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Scott Township, Columbia County is larceny-theft, accounting for 93.4% of all reported crimes (71 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Scott Township, Columbia 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 Scott Township, Columbia County's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Scott Township, Columbia County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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