Crime in State College, Pennsylvania
Major crime in State College is 15% below the U.S. rate per resident: 24% lower for persons crimes and 14% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.7% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in State College 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 State College
The middle half of State College residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 17 and 99; the typical (median) resident's is 57. The citywide figure (85) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5042.5%
- 50–10035.2%
- 100–20015.6%
- 200–4001.9%
- 400+4.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.7% 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.
State College against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
432 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than State College; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
State College 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, Park Forest Village (2 mi), is 57% below State College's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in State College
What are the most common crimes in State College?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 263 a year), shoplifting (about 101 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 101 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 2.1 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. State College's figures add up its 24 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- State College has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 16.5% 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: 41,119. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in State College, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/state-college
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Park Forest Village2 mi37
- Bellefonte10 mi27
- Lewistown20 mi121
- Tyrone22 mi85
- Huntingdon22 mi49
- Mount Union28 mi13
- Greenwood31 mi70
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