Salisbury is a neighborhood of 15,100 residents in Allentown, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Salisbury in Allentown safe?
Yes. Crime is low across most of the US, and lower still in Salisbury: an overall CrimeGrade™ of A+, safer than the neighborhoods where 82% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A+ here. Allentown as a whole grades A-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Salisbury run from A+ to B+, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 940 of 1,000Safer than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
82% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Salisbury as a whole, and 18% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Salisbury scores 940.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Salisbury, Allentown, PA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Salisbury in Allentown, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Salisbury
Thefts and acts of vandalism both run low. In Salisbury, each runs at less than half the US rate: 4.2 thefts and 2.0 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 and 5.5 nationally.
How Salisbury compares within Allentown
Every part of Salisbury where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Salisbury run from A+ to B+; 93% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Salisbury has less crime than 15 of the 16 neighborhoods in Allentown. It covers much of the Salisbury, South Poplar, and Mountainville areas.
Is crime going up in Allentown?
Reported violent crime in Allentown as a whole has fallen 31% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.9 to 2.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
AllentownUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Allentown. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Allentown
Violent, US
2016
+18%
+4%
2017
+19%
+4%
2018
-13%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-13%
+4%
2021
-22%
+6%
2022
-27%
+5%
2023
-26%
+2%
2024
-31%
-4%
Crime rates and types in Salisbury
CrimeGrade™ estimates Salisbury has about 8.9 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 76% less than the US as a whole and 71% less than Allentown as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Salisbury, about 48% of everything reported.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
How Salisbury compares with nearby neighborhoods
Salisbury has the least crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Tree cover, night lighting and walkability in Salisbury
Two things set Salisbury apart: it has tree cover over 42% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 5% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.42% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 98% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.95% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 91% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (12 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 89% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.5% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 94% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Salisbury
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Salisbury about $272 a year per household, 77% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $5.9 million a year, or $393 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Salisbury means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Salisbury, Allentown, PA average a SchoolGrade of C+: 44% of students test proficient, against 41% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Salisbury on SchoolGrade
