Crime in York, Pennsylvania
Major crime in York is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.5 times for persons crimes and 35% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 4.4% 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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Murder stands out most, at 5.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in York 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 York
The middle half of York residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 79 and 161; the typical (median) resident's is 111. The citywide figure (156) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–502.8%
- 50–10031.8%
- 100–20044.8%
- 200–40011.9%
- 400+8.7%
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 4.4% 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.
York against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
123 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than York; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
York has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, West York (2 mi), is 11% below York's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in York
What are the most common crimes in York?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 310 a year), aggravated assault (about 277 a year) and other larceny (about 230 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 5.2 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. York's figures add up its 45 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- York has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 94.9% 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: 45,545. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in York, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/york
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- West York2 mi139
- East York3 mi209
- Shiloh4 mi168
- Columbia13 mi101
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- Mount Joy15 mi23
- New Freedom16 mi163
- Middletown16 mi54