Crime in West Pittston, Pennsylvania
Major crime in West Pittston is 77% below the U.S. rate per resident: 87% lower for persons crimes and 75% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.2% 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 Pittston is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in West Pittston for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
How crime varies across West Pittston
The middle half of West Pittston residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 15 and 27; the typical (median) resident's is 16. The citywide figure (23) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5087.1%
- 50–10012.9%
- 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.
Lowest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.2% 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 Pittston against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,650 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Pittston; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
West Pittston has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pittston (1 mi), is 1.6 times West Pittston's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in West Pittston
What are the most common crimes in West Pittston?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 7 a year), shoplifting (about 6 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 2 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 39% 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. West Pittston's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- West Pittston 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: 4,739. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Pittston, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/west-pittston
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100