Sharon Hill, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 33% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sharon Hill, PA shows violent crime at 235.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,918.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
235.6/100K violent
1918.5/100K property
-33% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sharon Hill, PA
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Sharon Hill reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,942. 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 509.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 235.6 in 2024 (-53.8%). The highest observed value was 509.7 in 2020 and the lowest 52.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Sharon Hill's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sharon Hill's 235.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hazleton (232.7), Southwest Greensburg (231.7), Tunkhannock (231.3), Brookville (231.1). 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
Sharon Hill reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 235.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sharon Hill ranks 119 of 838 — above 719 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +260.7% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 76.3% of reported property offenses in Sharon Hill, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (8) and motor vehicle theft (19). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Sharon Hill'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 14 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,942. 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.
Sharon Hill's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 0.8 Census sq mi, Sharon Hill logged 147.7 property and 18.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sharon Hill's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 128 offenses; mix index 4,926).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+16.3%
202.5 → 235.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
+13.7%
1687.2 → 1918.5/100K
Property offenses lead Sharon Hill's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
Property Crime
114
1918.5
1457.1
Larceny-Theft
87
1464.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
319.8
-
Burglary
8
134.6
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
14
235.6
249.5
Aggravated Assault
7
117.8
-
Robbery
5
84.1
-
Murder
1
16.8
-
Rape
1
16.8
-
Sharon Hill Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Sharon Hill property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Sharon Hill: 236 violent, 1919 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Reading Township: 17 violent, 135 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Millcreek Township, Lebanon County: 0 violent, 221 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Franklin: 119 violent, 2121 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Moosic: 484 violent, 951 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Dickson City: 267 violent, 2652 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Oxford: 272 violent, 731 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Clairton: 425 violent, 1174 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Sharon Hill Police Department
Reporting agency for Sharon Hill Summary Reporting (SRS)
Sharon Hill Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sharon Hill's 128 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
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In 2024, Sharon Hill reported 14 violent crimes and 114 property crimes, for a total of 128 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Sharon Hill?
From 2023 to 2024, Sharon Hill's violent crime rate increased by 16.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 13.7%.
What is the most common crime in Sharon Hill?
The most common crime type in Sharon Hill is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.0% of all reported crimes (87 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Sharon Hill 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 Sharon Hill, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.