Crime in Palmer Heights, Pennsylvania
Major crime in Palmer Heights is 60% below the U.S. rate per resident: 89% lower for persons crimes and 54% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% 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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Every crime type in Palmer Heights is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Palmer Heights 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
Neighborhoods in Palmer Heights
Palmer Heights is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 28; the middle half of residents live where it is between 28 and 34.
- 0–5088.6%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20011.4%
- 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.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.5% 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.
Palmer Heights against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,255 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Palmer Heights; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Palmer Heights 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, Wilson (2 mi), is 2.3 times Palmer Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Palmer Heights
What are the most common crimes in Palmer Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 13 a year), theft from vehicle (about 4 a year) and shoplifting (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 10% 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. Palmer Heights's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Palmer Heights 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: 3,738. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Palmer Heights, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/palmer-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Wilson2 mi91
- Easton3 mi68
- Nazareth4 mi35
- Chestnut Hill4 mi21
- Phillipsburg, NJ4 mi126
- Middletown4 mi110
- Upper Pohatcong, NJ6 mi245
- Bethlehem7 mi91