Salisbury, Allentown, PA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Salisbury is a neighborhood of 15,100 residents in Allentown, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Salisbury?
Salisbury has less violent crime than most US neighborhoods: an A+, safer than the neighborhoods where 80% of Americans live. Assaults make up 91% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Allentown as a whole grades A- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 942 of 1,000Less violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
80% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Salisbury as a whole, and 20% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Salisbury scores 942.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid 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
How Salisbury compares within Allentown
Every part of Salisbury where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Salisbury run from A+ to B+.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Salisbury has less violent crime than 15 of the 16 neighborhoods in Allentown. It covers much of the Salisbury, South Poplar, and Mountainville areas.
Is violent 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%
Violent crime rates and types in Salisbury
CrimeGrade™ estimates Salisbury has about 1.8 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 87% less than the US as a whole and 84% less than Allentown as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Salisbury, about 91% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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.
Violent crime in Salisbury and nearby neighborhoods
Salisbury has the least violent crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Salisbury. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Salisbury is safer than 96% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two 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
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.5% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 94% 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 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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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Salisbury: D+ (21 of 100).3 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 76% 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 violent crime costs Salisbury
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Salisbury about $5.2 million a year, or $346 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $930,000, or $62 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
