Photo: Public domain · Public domainOn violent crime, Chambersburg has a higher rate per resident than 81% of U.S. towns
Annual rates stand at 3.9 violent crimes and 16.5 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 2.9 and 17.5 in the rest of Pennsylvania. Add to that, its letter overall is C (#513 of 578 graded towns in Pennsylvania): more crime per resident than 75% of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of PA” is every other Pennsylvania city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Chambersburg
Among Pennsylvania towns, lower
Pennsylvania’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Chambersburg’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 11% of the 578 Pennsylvania towns we grade, against 25% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Chambersburg has 16,098 jobs based in town for 23,376 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Chambersburg’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its property rate (16.5) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Crime in Chambersburg per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Chambersburg | Rest of Pennsylvania | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.6 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.5 | 2.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Chambersburg’s police reported 263 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.9 in the rest of Pennsylvania and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Chambersburg property | Rest of Pennsylvania property | Chambersburg violent | Rest of Pennsylvania violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 17.6 | 19.1 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 17.5 | 17.4 | 4.6 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 14.4 | 16.1 | 3.5 | 2.6 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Pennsylvania.
418 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
81 violent and 337 property, as reported to the FBI by Chambersburg’s police.
Six people died in crashes on Chambersburg’s roads in 2019–2023
Chambersburg had 6 fatal crashes in five years, in which six people died; 2 were pedestrians. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
That is about what is typical for Pennsylvania towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (5.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Chambersburg’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Chambersburg’s own rate (5.4) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Chambersburg and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chambersburg | C | 3.9 | 16.5 |
| Hamilton Township | — | — | — |
| Guilford Township | — | — | — |
| Greene Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Hamilton Township, Guilford Township and Greene Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Pennsylvania towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chambersburg | C | 3.9 | 16.5 |
| Peters Township | A− | 1.2 | 2.9 |
| Palmer Township | B | 0.4 | 12.0 |
| Carlisle | B− | 1.8 | 11.6 |
| West Goshen Township | B− | 2.3 | 10.4 |
| Pottstown | D | 7.4 | 33.1 |
The five graded Pennsylvania towns closest to Chambersburg’s population (23,376), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Chambersburg. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Chambersburg’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (23,343 in 2025); our figure for Chambersburg is 23,376 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Chambersburg
Is Chambersburg, PA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Chambersburg reports more crime per resident than 75% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #513 of 578 in Pennsylvania. Its police reported 3.9 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.9 in the rest of Pennsylvania and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Chambersburg?
3.9 violent and 16.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Pennsylvania reports 2.9 and 17.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Chambersburg?
Chambersburg’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Chambersburg”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.