York, PA has a D safety grade (31/100) with a violent crime rate of 530 per 100,000, 51% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
York (44,893 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
York, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 51% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, York, PA shows violent crime at 530.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,862.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 530.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, York ranks 37 of 838 — above 801 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +711.7% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to York's 530.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Folcroft (536.0), Ashley (536.8), Chester Township (522.6), Warren (519.8). 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 22.2% of the 1,074 Part I offenses reported in York for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 12.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 776.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 530.1 in 2024 (-31.7%). The highest observed value was 776.1 in 2020 and the lowest 525.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 71.9% of reported property offenses in York, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (139) and motor vehicle theft (96). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate York'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.
Across 5.3 Census sq mi, York logged 158 property and 45 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
York leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,610.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
York offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.3 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 | 836 | 1862.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 601 | 1338.7 |
| Burglary | 139 | 309.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 96 | 213.8 |
| Arson | 11 | 24.5 |
| Violent Crime | 238 | 530.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 147 | 327.4 |
| Robbery | 68 | 151.5 |
| Rape | 18 | 40.1 |
| Murder | 5 | 11.1 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 43,940 | 776.1 | 1793.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 43,911 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 44,901 | 710.5 | 2581.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 44,876 | 525.9 | 2339.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 44,893 | 530.1 | 1862.2 |
York Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind York's 1,074 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 in population. Their populations run from 39,879 to 50,544, against 44,893 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
York sits at 530.1/100K violent (grade D); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
York at 530.1/100K violent and 1,862.2/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
530.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,862.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+0.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, York reported 238 violent crimes and 836 property crimes, for a total of 1,074 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, York's violent crime rate increased by 0.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.4%.
The most common crime type in York is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.0% of all reported crimes (601 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: York 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 York's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 York, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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