Crime in Norristown, Pennsylvania
Major crime in Norristown is 32% above the U.S. rate per resident: 31% higher for persons crimes and 32% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.6% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 3.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Norristown 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 Norristown
The middle half of Norristown residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 61 and 157; the typical (median) resident's is 100. The citywide figure (132) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–509.9%
- 50–10040.9%
- 100–20032.7%
- 200–40013.4%
- 400+3.2%
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 15.6% 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.
Norristown against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
177 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Norristown; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Norristown has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Bridgeport (1 mi), is 36% above Norristown's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Norristown
What are the most common crimes in Norristown?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 268 a year), other larceny (about 167 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 96 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 3.1 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. Norristown's figures add up its 29 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Norristown has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 88.6% 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: 36,039. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Norristown, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/norristown
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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