Photo: GalaMoruu · CC BY-SA 4.0Lock Haven reports more crime per resident than 60% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Lock Haven’s police in 2023–2025, it grades C+ for safety: #464 of 578 graded towns in Pennsylvania.
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 Lock Haven
Among Pennsylvania towns, lower
Pennsylvania’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Lock Haven’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 20% of the 578 Pennsylvania towns we grade, against 40% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Lock Haven’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 violent rate (2.4) 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. Its property rate (13.0) 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Lock Haven’s police reported 63 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.9 in the rest of Pennsylvania and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Lock Haven | Rest of Pennsylvania | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 13 property crimes reported
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
Reported crime is steady
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.
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| Year | Lock Haven property | Rest of Pennsylvania property | Lock Haven violent | Rest of Pennsylvania violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.7 | 19.1 | 2.4 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 15.4 | 17.4 | 2.8 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 13.1 | 16.1 | 2.1 | 2.6 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
131 crimes reported in 2025
18 violent and 113 property, as reported to the FBI by Lock Haven’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
One person died in crashes on Lock Haven’s roads in 2019–2023
Lock Haven had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
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 Lock Haven’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Lock Haven’s own rate (2.4) 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.
Lock Haven and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lock Haven | C+ | 2.4 | 13.0 |
| Castanea Township | — | — | — |
| Woodward Township | — | — | — |
| Flemington | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Castanea Township, Woodward Township and Flemington have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Pennsylvania towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lock Haven | C+ | 2.4 | 13.0 |
| Hatboro | A− | 0.5 | 5.3 |
| Upper Nazareth Township | A− | 1.6 | 2.6 |
| North Coventry Township | B | 0.5 | 12.6 |
| Kennedy Township | C | 2.9 | 14.6 |
| Jeannette | C | 6.2 | 6.7 |
The five graded Pennsylvania towns closest to Lock Haven’s population (8,500), by grade.
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 Lock Haven. 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 Lock Haven’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,647 in 2025); our figure for Lock Haven is 8,500 (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 Lock Haven
Is Lock Haven, PA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Lock Haven reports more crime per resident than 60% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #464 of 578 in Pennsylvania. Its police reported 2.4 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 Lock Haven?
2.4 violent and 13.0 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 crime going up or down in Lock Haven?
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Lock Haven?
Lock Haven’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Lock Haven”. 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.