Crime in Palmerton, Pennsylvania
Major crime in Palmerton is 54% below the U.S. rate per resident: 84% lower for persons crimes and 47% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% 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 Palmerton is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Palmerton 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 Palmerton
The middle half of Palmerton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 47; the typical (median) resident's is 46.
- 0–5076.0%
- 50–10024.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 7.8% 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.
Palmerton against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,471 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Palmerton; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Palmerton has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Slatington (4 mi), is 17% below Palmerton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Palmerton
What are the most common crimes in Palmerton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 17 a year), other larceny (about 15 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: about 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. Palmerton's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Palmerton 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: 5,608. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Palmerton, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/palmerton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Slatington4 mi38
- Lehighton6 mi91
- Jim Thorpe8 mi66
- Northampton10 mi25
- Nesquehoning11 mi51
- Catasauqua13 mi54
- Summit Hill13 mi21
- Fullerton14 mi122