CrimeMetric

Crime in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania

Major crime in Brookhaven is 31% above the U.S. rate per resident: 75% lower for persons crimes and 1.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.0% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
131
31% above the U.S. rate
1.6 times the Pennsylvania rate
down 7.0% in a year
Persons crimes
25
75% below the U.S. rate
64% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 6.5% in a year
Property crimes
154
1.5 times the U.S. rate
1.8 times the Pennsylvania rate
down 7.0% in a year
Social disorder
171
1.7 times the U.S. rate
2.0 times the Pennsylvania rate
down 6.4% in a year

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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Crime by type

Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Brookhaven for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Brookhaven

The middle half of Brookhaven residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 40 and 204; the typical (median) resident's is 47. The citywide figure (131) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Brookhaven, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5054.2%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20015.4%
  • 200–40030.4%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weeknights and on weekend daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm124
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am140
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm138
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am120
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.0% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.0%PA -8.6%-14.4%PA -14.0%
Persons crimes-6.5%PA -5.5%-6.2%PA -6.0%
Property crimes-7.0%PA -9.2%-14.7%PA -15.4%
Social disorder-6.4%PA -6.1%-7.8%PA -8.5%

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.

Similar-size places

Brookhaven against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

344 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brookhaven; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Silvis, IL8,413172
Brookhaven, PA8,403131
Nuevo, CA8,413125

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Brookhaven has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Chester (2 mi), is about Brookhaven's rate.

Eddystone3 mi154
Folsom4 mi139
Chester2 mi135
Brookhaven131
Woodlyn3 mi89
Media3 mi78

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Brookhaven

What are the most common crimes in Brookhaven?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 75 a year), shoplifting (about 74 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 23 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.8 times 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. Brookhaven's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Brookhaven 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: 8,403. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/brookhaven

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100