Crime rates for Elizabeth, PA

Elizabeth has an overall crime rate of 25 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Elizabeth is 1 in 39. How does Elizabeth fare compared to other communities in Pennsylvania of all population sizes? Elizabeth's crime rate is lower than approximately 30% of Pennsylvania communities.

However, when you compare Elizabeth to other boroughs of similar population, the Elizabeth crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Elizabeth does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Elizabeth does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Elizabeth.

NeighborhoodScout's research shows that Elizabeth's violent crime rate is 2 per one thousand inhabitants, which is about average for all communities in America, across all population sizes. Violent crimes that are tracked and included in this rate are armed robbery, aggravated assault, forcible (not statutory) rape, and murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Roughly similar to the national average, our analysis shows that your chance of becoming a victim of violent crime in Elizabeth is one in 536.

Moreover, the rate of property crime in Elizabeth – burglary, larceny ($50 or more), grand theft auto, and arson – is 24 per 1,000 residents. This is about average for all cities and towns in America of all population sizes.