Photo: Smallbones · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Mount Joy than in 91% of U.S. towns
A Safety Grade of A follows from crimes Mount Joy’s police reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #109 of 578 graded towns in Pennsylvania. What’s more, the rate the grade counts dropped 54% from 2023 to 2025. In a usual year, 0.4 violent crime and 3.6 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Pennsylvania, 2.9 and 17.5. On violence it beats 88% of U.S. towns, and on property crime 88%.
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 Mount Joy
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Mount Joy’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 lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Mount Joy property | Rest of Pennsylvania property | Mount Joy violent | Rest of Pennsylvania violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.4 | 19.1 | 0.7 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 4.1 | 17.4 | 0.2 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 2.1 | 16.1 | 0.2 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Pennsylvania.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Mount Joy | Rest of Pennsylvania | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.7 | 3.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.2 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.2 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mount Joy’s police reported 10 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.9 in the rest of Pennsylvania and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Mount Joy 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 fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
20 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.
2 violent and 18 property, as reported to the FBI by Mount Joy’s police.
No one died in a crash on Mount Joy’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 Mount Joy’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mount Joy’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.
Mount Joy and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Joy | A | 0.4 | 3.6 |
| Rapho Township | — | — | — |
| East Donegal Township | — | — | — |
| Mount Joy Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Rapho Township, East Donegal Township and Mount Joy Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Pennsylvania towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Joy | A | 0.4 | 3.6 |
| West Earl Township | A+ | 0.3 | 2.8 |
| Gettysburg | B+ | 1.3 | 5.1 |
| North Coventry Township | B | 0.5 | 12.6 |
| Downingtown | C+ | 0.7 | 21.8 |
| Brookhaven | C | 1.1 | 23.5 |
The five graded Pennsylvania towns closest to Mount Joy’s population (8,319), 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 Mount Joy. 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 Mount Joy’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,376 in 2025); our figure for Mount Joy is 8,319 (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 Mount Joy
Is Mount Joy, PA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mount Joy reports less crime per resident than 91% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade and #109 of 578 in Pennsylvania. Its police reported 0.4 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 Mount Joy?
0.4 violent and 3.6 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 Mount Joy?
Mount Joy’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mount Joy”. 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.