CrimeMetric

Crime in Old Forge, Pennsylvania

Major crime in Old Forge is 67% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 67% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
33
67% below the U.S. rate
61% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 7.7% in a year
Persons crimes
31
69% below the U.S. rate
55% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 3.8% in a year
Property crimes
33
67% below the U.S. rate
62% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
45
55% below the U.S. rate
49% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 6.4% 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

Every crime type in Old Forge is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Old Forge 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 Old Forge

The middle half of Old Forge residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 36; the typical (median) resident's is 28.

Map of Old Forge, 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.
  • 0–5093.6%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–2006.4%
  • 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.

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 6pm31
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am36
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm33
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am32
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.7% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.7%PA -8.6%-12.6%PA -14.0%
Persons crimes-3.8%PA -5.5%+0.4%PA -6.0%
Property crimes-8.5%PA -9.2%-15.3%PA -15.4%
Social disorder-6.4%PA -6.1%-7.1%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

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

1,811 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Old Forge; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Antigo, WI8,66367
Old Forge, PA8,65733

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

Nearby places

Old Forge has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Moosic (2 mi), is 1.8 times Old Forge's rate.

Taylor2 mi195
Scranton5 mi90
Moosic2 mi59
Dupont3 mi56
Duryea2 mi39
Pittston4 mi37
Old Forge33
Exeter5 mi27

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

Questions about crime in Old Forge

What are the most common crimes in Old Forge?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 15 a year), shoplifting (about 14 a year) and aggravated assault (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 41% below 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. Old Forge's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Old Forge 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: 8,657. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Old Forge, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/old-forge

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100