York County Regional, PA has a A safety grade (78/100) with a violent crime rate of 178 per 100,000, 49% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 71,232 residents, York County Regional is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against PA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
York County Regional, PA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 49% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, York County Regional, PA shows violent crime at 178.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 511 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 49% 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.
2022–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 935.6 per 100,000 in 2022 to 178.3 in 2024 (-80.9%). The highest observed value was 935.6 in 2022 and the lowest 178.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to York County Regional's 178.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Edinboro (178.1), Mount Pleasant Township (179.2), Brentwood (177.3), Bellevue (177.2). 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 25.9% of the 491 Part I offenses reported in York County Regional for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 15.9 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 178.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, York County Regional ranks 169 of 838 — above 669 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +173.0% 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.
Property counts dominate York County Regional'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
York County Regional's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 491 offenses; mix index 4,519).
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
York County Regional 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 | 364 | 511 |
| Larceny-Theft | 308 | 432.4 |
| Burglary | 33 | 46.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 23 | 32.3 |
| Arson | 3 | 4.2 |
| Violent Crime | 127 | 178.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 111 | 155.8 |
| Robbery | 10 | 14 |
| Rape | 5 | 7 |
| Murder | 1 | 1.4 |
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2022-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,612 | 935.6 | 3710.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 70,843 | 223 | 602.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 71,232 | 178.3 | 511 |
York County Regional Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind York County Regional's 491 reported offenses (3-year span 2022-2024).
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 York County Regional in population. Their populations run from 57,580 to 84,668, against 71,232 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
York County Regional sits at 178.3/100K violent (grade A); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
York County Regional at 178.3/100K violent and 511/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
178.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
511/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-20% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, York County Regional reported 127 violent crimes and 364 property crimes, for a total of 491 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, York County Regional's violent crime rate decreased by 20%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.2%.
The most common crime type in York County Regional is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.7% of all reported crimes (308 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: York County Regional's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how York County Regional's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 York County Regional, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. York County Regional is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (71,232 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.