Crime in Erie, Pennsylvania
Major crime in Erie is 40% above the U.S. rate per resident: 24% higher for persons crimes and 44% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.0% 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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Other larceny stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Erie 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 Erie
The middle half of Erie residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 75 and 162; the typical (median) resident's is 119. The citywide figure (140) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–503.2%
- 50–10038.8%
- 100–20042.5%
- 200–40012.2%
- 400+3.4%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes and on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 15.0% 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.
Erie against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
111 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Erie; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Erie has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Wesleyville (3 mi), is 36% above Erie's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Erie
What are the most common crimes in Erie?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 999 a year), shoplifting (about 400 a year) and aggravated assault (about 261 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 2.2 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. Erie's figures add up its 90 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Erie has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 29.1% 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: 91,432. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Erie, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/erie
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Wesleyville3 mi191
- Lawrence Park4 mi33
- North East14 mi50
- Edinboro17 mi68
- Union City19 mi55
- Corry26 mi92
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- Westfield, NY30 mi44