Photo: Vasiliymeshko · CC BY-SA 3.0Pittston reports less crime per resident than 90% of U.S. towns
The crimes the grade counts fell 100% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, it has less violent crime than 81% of U.S. towns, and less property crime than 89%. Scored on crimes Pittston’s police reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A for safety: #119 of 578 graded towns in Pennsylvania. Out of every 1,000 residents, 0.6 violent crime and 3.2 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 2.9 and 17.5 in the rest of 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 Pittston
Pittston reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 5 Pennsylvania towns on Pittston’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Duryea (B+), Pittston Township (C−). Exeter and West Pittston have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Jenkins Township reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025. Neighbors ↓
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 Pittston’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; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Pittston property | Rest of Pennsylvania property | Pittston violent | Rest of Pennsylvania violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.7 | 19.1 | 1.2 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 5.0 | 17.4 | 0.7 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 0.0 | 16.1 | 0.0 | 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 | Pittston | Rest of Pennsylvania | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Pittston’s police reported 14 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.6 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 Pittston 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 no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
0 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. 2025 figures come from Pennsylvania State Police UCR, which publishes violent crime, homicides, robberies and property crime only.
0 violent and 0 property, as reported to the FBI by Pittston’s police.
One person died in crashes on Pittston’s roads in 2019–2023
Pittston had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 Pittston’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Pittston’s own rate (2.6) 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.
Pittston and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittston | A | 0.6 | 3.2 |
| Pittston Township | C− | 2.1 | 28.8 |
| Exeter | — | — | — |
| West Pittston | — | — | — |
| Duryea | B+ | 2.2 | 4.6 |
| Jenkins Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Exeter and West Pittston have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Jenkins Township reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025.
Pennsylvania towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittston | A | 0.6 | 3.2 |
| East Vincent Township | A | 0.4 | 2.7 |
| Robeson Township | A | 0.4 | 3.5 |
| Grove City | A− | 1.0 | 4.6 |
| Carnegie | B | 0.6 | 11.4 |
| Middlesex Township | B− | 1.9 | 10.5 |
The five graded Pennsylvania towns closest to Pittston’s population (7,715), 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 Pittston. 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 Pittston’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,785 in 2025); our figure for Pittston is 7,715 (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 Pittston
Is Pittston, PA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Pittston reports less crime per resident than 90% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade and #119 of 578 in Pennsylvania. Its police reported 0.6 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 Pittston?
0.6 violent and 3.2 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 Pittston safer than Pittston Township?
Pittston Township reports more crime per resident than Pittston: Pittston Township grades C− for safety and Pittston A. Pittston Township’s police reported 2.1 violent and 28.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Pittston?
Pittston’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Pittston Police Department”. 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.