CrimeMetric

Crime in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania

Major crime in Catasauqua is 46% below the U.S. rate per resident: 54% lower for persons crimes and 44% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
54
46% below the U.S. rate
35% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 8.1% in a year
Persons crimes
46
54% below the U.S. rate
34% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 9.2% in a year
Property crimes
56
44% below the U.S. rate
35% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 7.9% in a year
Social disorder
83
17% below the U.S. rate
5% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 6.5% 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

Murder stands out most, at 5.2 times the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Catasauqua

Catasauqua is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 45; the middle half of residents live where it is between 33 and 72.

Map of Catasauqua, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5067.7%
  • 50–10013.3%
  • 100–20018.9%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm56
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am52
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm59
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am51
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.1% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.1%PA -8.6%-13.4%PA -14.0%
Persons crimes-9.2%PA -5.5%-2.8%PA -6.0%
Property crimes-7.9%PA -9.2%-15.4%PA -15.4%
Social disorder-6.5%PA -6.1%-7.9%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

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

1,258 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Catasauqua; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Bethel, AK6,658125
Hastings, MI6,666119
Catasauqua, PA6,65954

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

Nearby places

Catasauqua has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fullerton (2 mi), is 2.2 times Catasauqua's rate.

Fullerton2 mi122
Middletown7 mi110
Allentown4 mi95
Bethlehem5 mi91
Catasauqua54

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

Questions about crime in Catasauqua

What are the most common crimes in Catasauqua?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 34 a year), theft from vehicle (about 11 a year) and rape / sexual assault (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 5.2 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. Catasauqua's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Catasauqua 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: 6,659. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100