Crime in West Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Major crime in West Hazleton is 42% below the U.S. rate per resident: 40% lower for persons crimes and 43% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.1% 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 West Hazleton is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in West Hazleton 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 West Hazleton
West Hazleton is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 45; the middle half of residents live where it is between 24 and 45.
- 0–5077.1%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20022.9%
- 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 7.1% 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.
West Hazleton against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,177 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Hazleton; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
West Hazleton 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, Hazleton (1 mi), is 30% below West Hazleton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in West Hazleton
What are the most common crimes in West Hazleton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 16 a year), shoplifting (about 15 a year) and aggravated assault (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol 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. West Hazleton's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- West Hazleton 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: 5,249. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Hazleton, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/west-hazleton
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