CrimeMetric

Crime in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania

Major crime in Nanticoke is 17% below the U.S. rate per resident: 52% lower for persons crimes and 9% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
83
17% below the U.S. rate
about the Pennsylvania rate
down 8.3% in a year
Persons crimes
48
52% below the U.S. rate
31% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 6.7% in a year
Property crimes
91
9% below the U.S. rate
about the Pennsylvania rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
100
about the U.S. rate
15% above the Pennsylvania rate
down 5.8% 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

Burglary stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Nanticoke 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 Nanticoke

The middle half of Nanticoke residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 52 and 86; the typical (median) resident's is 75.

Map of Nanticoke, 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.
  • 0–509.2%
  • 50–10071.9%
  • 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 weeknights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm74
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am94
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm84
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am83
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.3% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.3%PA -8.6%-16.6%PA -14.0%
Persons crimes-6.7%PA -5.5%-3.8%PA -6.0%
Property crimes-8.5%PA -9.2%-18.1%PA -15.4%
Social disorder-5.8%PA -6.1%-7.3%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

Nanticoke against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

918 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Nanticoke; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Mission, KS10,775252
Shelton, WA10,782145
Nanticoke, PA10,78083
Summit, IL10,79165
Maynard, MA10,77047

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

Nearby places

Nanticoke 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, Plymouth (4 mi), is 2.4 times Nanticoke's rate.

Plymouth4 mi195
Kingston7 mi99
Nanticoke83
Luzerne8 mi69
Ashley5 mi52

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

Questions about crime in Nanticoke

What are the most common crimes in Nanticoke?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 42 a year), shoplifting (about 42 a year) and burglary (about 30 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 1.7 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. Nanticoke's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Nanticoke 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: 10,780. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100