Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, PA has a B safety grade (70/100) with a violent crime rate of 213 per 100,000, 40% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, PA Crime Rate & Safety
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County (27,762 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 40% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, PA shows violent crime at 212.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,041 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 40% 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
212.5/100K violent
1041/100K property
-40% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, PA
Comparable rate records
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County's 212.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Whitehall Township (213.1), Shenandoah (211.9), Upper Darby Township (213.8), Mount Carmel (214.1). 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
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 212.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County ranks 140 of 838 — above 698 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +225.4% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.0% of the 348 Part I offenses reported in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 7.0 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 Susquehanna Township, Dauphin 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County's 2024 municipal footprint
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 348 offenses; mix index 4,660).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin 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.
Property offenses lead Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
289
1041
1711
Larceny-Theft
230
828.5
-
Burglary
34
122.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
25
90.1
-
Arson
2
7.2
-
Violent Crime
59
212.5
352
Aggravated Assault
40
144.1
-
Robbery
9
32.4
-
Rape
8
28.8
-
Murder
2
7.2
-
How Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County sits among PA peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County in population. Their populations run from 26,801 to 28,506, against 27,762 here. Or use our
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Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County's closest PA violent-rate matches
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County sits at 212.5/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Out-of-state peers for Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County at 212.5/100K violent and 1,041/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County violent rate vs peers
More about Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County's 2024 record
How many crimes were reported in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County?
In 2024, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County reported 59 violent crimes and 289 property crimes, for a total of 348 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County?
The most common crime type in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.1% of all reported crimes (230 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Federal sources for this mid-size row
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Summary Reporting System + National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). FBI UCR Program
FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE), current-vintage UCR/NIBRS data source. FBI Crime Data Explorer
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), National Crime Victimization Survey, contextual statistics. Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau ACS, population denominators for rate calculations. U.S. Census Bureau ACS
CDC WONDER, injury and mortality reference for homicide rate context. CDC WONDER
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.