Photo: Original uploader was Ekem at en.wikipedia · Public domainFor property crime, Pocono Township trails 73% of U.S. towns per resident
Its police logs show 1.4 violent crimes and 17.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Pennsylvania the numbers are 2.9 and 17.5. All told, Pocono Township grades C+ for safety (#470 of 578 graded towns in Pennsylvania): more crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 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 Pocono Township
Among Pennsylvania towns, lower
Pennsylvania’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Pocono Township’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 19% of the 578 Pennsylvania towns we grade, against 39% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Pocono Township has 8,883 jobs based in town for 10,902 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 Pocono Township’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Pocono Township’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Pocono Township | Rest of Pennsylvania | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Pocono Township’s police reported 46 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.4 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 Pocono Township 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Pocono Township property | Rest of Pennsylvania property | Pocono Township violent | Rest of Pennsylvania violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 15.7 | 19.1 | 1.7 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 22.4 | 17.3 | 1.5 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 15.5 | 16.1 | 1.0 | 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.
177 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.
11 violent and 166 property, as reported to the FBI by Pocono Township’s police.
11 people died in crashes on Pocono Township’s roads in 2019–2023
Pocono Township had 8 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died. 5 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 20.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Pennsylvania towns of 5,000–25,000 people (5.8, 579 towns).
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.
Pocono Township and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pocono Township | C+ | 1.4 | 17.9 |
| Jackson Township | — | — | — |
| Tobyhanna Township | — | — | — |
| Paradise Township | — | — | — |
| Hamilton Township | — | — | — |
| Stroud Township | — | — | — |
| Mount Pocono | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Jackson Township, Tobyhanna Township, Paradise Township, Hamilton Township, Stroud Township and Mount Pocono have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Pennsylvania towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pocono Township | C+ | 1.4 | 17.9 |
| Upper Providence Township | A+ | 0.1 | 1.6 |
| South Lebanon Township | A+ | 0.1 | 1.4 |
| Lehigh Township | A+ | 0.0 | 2.7 |
| Easttown Township | A− | 0.8 | 4.0 |
| Nanticoke | C+ | 1.8 | 14.3 |
The five graded Pennsylvania towns closest to Pocono Township’s population (10,902), 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 Pocono Township. 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 Pocono Township’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (10,744 in 2025); our figure for Pocono Township is 10,902 (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 Pocono Township
Is Pocono Township, PA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Pocono Township reports more crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #470 of 578 in Pennsylvania. Its police reported 1.4 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 Pocono Township?
1.4 violent and 17.9 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.
Who polices Pocono Township?
Pocono Township’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Pocono Township”. 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.