Photo: Jared Kofsky/PlaceNJ.com · CC BY-SA 4.0Dickson City has more property crime per resident than 83% of U.S. towns
All 4 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Add to that, on crimes reported by Dickson City’s police in 2023–2025, it grades C− for safety: #535 of 578 graded towns in Pennsylvania. Its police logs show 3.4 violent crimes and 23.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Pennsylvania the numbers are 2.9 and 17.5.
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 Dickson City
4 of the 4 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 4 Pennsylvania towns on Dickson City’s borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: Scott Township (A+), Olyphant (A), Throop (A−), Blakely (B+). Neighbors ↓
A job center
Dickson City has 5,951 jobs based in town for 5,976 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 Dickson City’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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.4) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Crime in Dickson City 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 3 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 | Dickson City | Rest of Pennsylvania | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.0 | 3.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Dickson City’s police reported 61 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.4 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 | Dickson City property | Rest of Pennsylvania property | Dickson City violent | Rest of Pennsylvania violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 21.6 | 19.1 | 5.0 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 26.5 | 17.3 | 2.7 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 23.6 | 16.0 | 2.5 | 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.
157 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.
15 violent and 142 property, as reported to the FBI by Dickson City’s police.
No one died in a crash on Dickson City’s roads in 2019–2023
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 Dickson City’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Dickson City’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Dickson City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dickson City | C− | 3.4 | 23.9 |
| Throop | A− | 1.2 | 3.2 |
| Olyphant | A | 0.6 | 3.6 |
| Scott Township | A+ | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Blakely | B+ | 1.3 | 6.9 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Pennsylvania towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dickson City | C− | 3.4 | 23.9 |
| Reading Township | A+ | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| Hellam Township | A | 0.9 | 2.5 |
| Moosic | C+ | 3.3 | 7.8 |
| Corry | C+ | 2.6 | 12.7 |
| Sharon Hill | C | 2.8 | 19.9 |
The five graded Pennsylvania towns closest to Dickson City’s population (5,976), 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 Dickson City. 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 Dickson City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,007 in 2025); our figure for Dickson City is 5,976 (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 Dickson City
Is Dickson City, PA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Dickson City reports more crime per resident than 82% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #535 of 578 in Pennsylvania. Its police reported 3.4 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 Dickson City?
3.4 violent and 23.9 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.
Is Dickson City safer than Throop?
Throop reports less crime per resident than Dickson City: Throop grades A− for safety and Dickson City C−. Throop’s police reported 1.2 violent and 3.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Dickson City?
Dickson City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Dickson City”. 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.