Whitehall Township, PA has a C safety grade (58/100) with a violent crime rate of 213 per 100,000, 39% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Whitehall Township, PA Crime Rate & Safety
Whitehall Township (29,090 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Whitehall Township, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 39% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Whitehall Township, PA shows violent crime at 213.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,344.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 39% below 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.
C safety grade
213.1/100K violent
2344.4/100K property
-39% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Whitehall Township, PA
Comparable rate records
Whitehall Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Whitehall Township's 213.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County (212.5), Upper Darby Township (213.8), Mount Carmel (214.1), Shenandoah (211.9). 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
Whitehall Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 213.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Whitehall Township ranks 139 of 838 — above 699 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +226.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 203.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 213.1 in 2024 (+4.5%). The highest observed value was 240.5 in 2023 and the lowest 177.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Whitehall Township'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.
Whitehall Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Whitehall Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 744 offenses; mix index 6,726).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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 rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-16.1%
2793.6 → 2344.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-11.4%
240.5 → 213.1/100K
Property offenses lead Whitehall Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
Property Crime
682
2344.4
1457.1
Larceny-Theft
606
2083.2
-
Burglary
46
158.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
30
103.1
-
Arson
2
6.9
-
Violent Crime
62
213.1
249.5
Aggravated Assault
44
151.3
-
Rape
10
34.4
-
Robbery
6
20.6
-
Murder
2
6.9
-
Whitehall Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Whitehall Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Whitehall Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Whitehall Township NIBRS-participating
Whitehall Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Whitehall Township's 744 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
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How many crimes were reported in Whitehall Township?
In 2024, Whitehall Township reported 62 violent crimes and 682 property crimes, for a total of 744 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Whitehall Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Whitehall Township's violent crime rate decreased by 11.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.1%.
What is the most common crime in Whitehall Township?
The most common crime type in Whitehall Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.5% of all reported crimes (606 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Whitehall Township 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Whitehall Township, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.