Crime in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
Major crime in Bellefonte is 74% below the U.S. rate per resident: 75% lower for persons crimes and 73% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Every crime type in Bellefonte is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bellefonte for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
How crime varies across Bellefonte
The middle half of Bellefonte residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 14 and 43; the typical (median) resident's is 25.
- 0–5090.0%
- 50–10010.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Lowest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.9% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%
Change in expected crimes, with Pennsylvania as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Bellefonte against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,985 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bellefonte; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bellefonte has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, State College (10 mi), is 3.2 times Bellefonte's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bellefonte
What are the most common crimes in Bellefonte?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 8 a year), other larceny (about 7 a year) and aggravated assault (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 27% below the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Bellefonte's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bellefonte has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 5,833. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/bellefonte
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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