How has crime changed in Pennsylvania since 1985?

Police in Pennsylvania reported about 229 violent crimes per 100,000 people in 2025 (U.S.: 329), down from a high of 465 in 1991, and 1,360 property crimes in 2025 (U.S.: 1,552), down from a high of 3,195 in 1991. There's no figure for 2021, when police departments covering fewer than 3 in 4 of its people reported a full year. Rates count only the agencies that reported. Choose another state to compare.

The interactive chart needs JavaScript. The numbers are in the table below.

The value axis starts at zero. Hover, tap or use the arrow keys to read exact values.

Save a simple drawing of this chart for slides, essays or posts, with its question, source, date and a link back to this page. Please keep the credit.

Download image

Source and date

Source
FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program
License
Public domain (U.S. government work); source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program
Data as of
Published

Citation

Chartly. “How has crime changed in your state since 1985?” Chart. Data: FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend (data as of December 31, 2025). https://chart.ly/charts/crime-rates-by-state-since-1985 (accessed October 10, 2026).

Free for your article, blog or class page: paste this code where the chart should go. It shows the interactive chart with its source and a small “Chart by Chartly” credit, and stays up to date when the data changes.

The data

Download data (CSV)

The file has the numbers in this table, with the source, license and date. Please credit the source and Chartly.

This table shows Pennsylvania's rates and the U.S. rates each year; the download has the state the chart opens with.

Crimes per 100,000 people in Pennsylvania and the U.S., each year
Year Violent, Pennsylvania Violent, U.S. Property, Pennsylvania Property, U.S.
1985 331.1 570.3 2,739.2 4,780.0
1986 361.4 633.6 2,789.3 5,015.3
1987 374.3 624.9 2,845.4 5,090.1
1988 368.6 630.2 2,866.2 5,045.9
1989 391.2 680.5 3,039.4 5,211.5
1990 442.1 749.8 3,101.5 5,227.0
1991 464.5 798.1 3,195.3 5,388.4
1992 429.5 785.4 3,029.5 5,089.3
1993 433.0 764.1 2,928.5 4,814.1
1994 429.2 740.4 2,907.6 4,752.4
1995 446.9 720.6 3,015.0 4,796.6
1996 417.7 658.8 2,954.9 4,553.0
1997 422.4 644.9 2,961.8 4,494.7
1998 429.9 603.8 2,901.6 4,212.6
1999 432.4 545.8 2,753.3 3,872.6
2000 432.6 534.4 2,626.8 3,751.7
2001 434.4 529.5 2,618.3 3,801.5
2002 420.8 512.9 2,494.6 3,737.7
2003 417.0 493.7 2,477.3 3,704.0
2004 426.4 478.6 2,471.0 3,599.4
2005 438.6 483.0 2,460.0 3,518.3
2006 453.7 486.9 2,487.2 3,397.1
2007 424.0 477.9 2,400.5 3,316.1
2008 412.3 463.7 2,431.4 3,252.3
2009 383.5 436.8 2,217.1 3,076.7
2010 367.9 408.1 2,194.4 2,963.4
2011 363.0 390.1 2,239.2 2,925.7
2012 355.8 390.7 2,181.2 2,881.3
2013 335.2 378.2 2,070.8 2,759.3
2014 314.8 373.7 1,943.7 2,591.8
2015 313.7 384.6 1,821.7 2,495.2
2016 315.3 399.5 1,748.3 2,469.1
2017 312.9 397.5 1,653.7 2,372.4
2018 306.4 384.8 1,501.6 2,206.8
2019 297.8 381.0 1,385.1 2,109.0
2020 326.4 399.3 1,402.2 1,955.3
2021 – 360.9 – 1,762.2
2022 319.4 398.2 1,612.8 1,998.5
2023 278.2 385.6 1,612.8 1,950.5
2024 251.4 363.4 1,466.1 1,766.8
2025 229.2 329.3 1,359.9 1,552.1

Crimes per 100,000 people, as police reported them to the FBI.

Get new charts weekly

One email a week with the newest charts and their key numbers. No account needed.