Shamokin, PA has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 459 per 100,000, 30% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Shamokin is a small municipal reporter (6,761 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Shamokin, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 30% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Shamokin, PA shows violent crime at 458.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 695.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 30% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 173.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 458.5 in 2024 (+164.0%). The highest observed value was 458.5 in 2024 and the lowest 173.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 39.7% of the 78 Part I offenses reported in Shamokin for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 29.7 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 458.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Shamokin ranks 47 of 838 — above 791 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +602.0% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Shamokin's 458.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are New Kensington (456.4), Chambersburg (465.0), Norristown (450.2), Lower Chichester Township (445.6). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 68.1% of reported property offenses in Shamokin, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (15) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Shamokin'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.
Across 0.8 Census sq mi, Shamokin logged 57 property and 37.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Shamokin leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,356.
Violent offenses are 40% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Shamokin offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.8 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 | 47 | 695.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 32 | 473.3 |
| Burglary | 15 | 221.9 |
| Arson | 2 | 29.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 458.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 28 | 414.1 |
| Robbery | 2 | 29.6 |
| Rape | 1 | 14.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,908 | 173.7 | 1418.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 6,865 | 189.4 | 349.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,874 | 189.1 | 843.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,794 | 250.2 | 750.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,761 | 458.5 | 695.2 |
Shamokin Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Shamokin's 78 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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 Shamokin in population. Their populations run from 6,717 to 6,813, against 6,761 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Shamokin sits at 458.5/100K violent (grade C); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Shamokin reported 31 violent crimes and 47 property crimes, for a total of 78 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Shamokin's violent crime rate increased by 83.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.4%.
The most common crime type in Shamokin is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.0% of all reported crimes (32 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Shamokin 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 Shamokin's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Shamokin, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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