Crime in California, Pennsylvania
Major crime in California is 14% below the U.S. rate per resident: 2.1 times for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.1% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in California for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across California
The middle half of California residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 58 and 103; the typical (median) resident's is 77.
- 0–5012.5%
- 50–10055.1%
- 100–20032.4%
- 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.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.1% 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.
California against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
513 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than California; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
California 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, Centerville (5 mi), is 41% below California's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in California
What are the most common crimes in California?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 29 a year), other larceny (about 15 a year) and shoplifting (about 13 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 2.6 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. California's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- California 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: 4,782. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in California, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/california
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Centerville5 mi51
- Monessen6 mi90
- Bentleyville7 mi25
- Donora8 mi50
- Monongahela10 mi106
- Uniontown14 mi220
- Clairton16 mi77
- Scottdale16 mi79