CrimeMetric

Crime in Somerset, Pennsylvania

Major crime in Somerset is 16% below the U.S. rate per resident: 1.9 times for persons crimes and 39% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
84
16% below the U.S. rate
about the Pennsylvania rate
down 6.3% in a year
Persons crimes
188
1.9 times the U.S. rate
2.7 times the Pennsylvania rate
down 2.9% in a year
Property crimes
61
39% below the U.S. rate
30% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 8.4% in a year
Social disorder
114
14% above the U.S. rate
30% above 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

Aggravated assault stands out most, at 2.4 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Somerset 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 Somerset

The middle half of Somerset residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 56 and 109; the typical (median) resident's is 88.

Map of Somerset, 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.
  • 0–5017.7%
  • 50–10052.3%
  • 100–20021.8%
  • 200–4008.2%
  • 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 6pm78
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am92
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm83
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am82
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 6.3% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-6.3%PA -8.6%-14.1%PA -14.0%
Persons crimes-2.9%PA -5.5%-4.0%PA -6.0%
Property crimes-8.4%PA -9.2%-21.0%PA -15.4%
Social disorder-6.4%PA -6.1%-11.9%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

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

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

Somerset, PA5,78284
El Rio, CA5,77568
Brady, TX5,77749
Ada, OH5,77544
Erwin, TN5,77732

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

Nearby places

Somerset has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Windber (21 mi), is 8% below Somerset's rate.

Johnstown24 mi217
Westmont23 mi156
Somerset84
Scottdale28 mi79
Windber21 mi77
Latrobe27 mi38

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

Questions about crime in Somerset

What are the most common crimes in Somerset?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 32 a year), other larceny (about 18 a year) and shoplifting (about 17 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 2.4 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. Somerset's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Somerset 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: 5,782. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100