Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Blair County, Pennsylvania, has about 120,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Blair County Sheriff's Office, 14 city agencies and six campus, state or other agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Blair County Court of Common Pleas. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Blair County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Blair County
The Blair County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Blair County. It reported 122 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside eight of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Altoona, 42,719 residents: 2,265 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hollidaysburg, 5,537 residents: 254 arrests reported for 2025.
- Tyrone, 5,312 residents: 257 arrests reported for 2025.
- Roaring Spring, 2,297 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2025.
- Martinsburg, 1,823 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bellwood, 1,764 residents: 24 arrests reported for 2025.
- Duncansville, 1,217 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Williamsburg, 1,203 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2024.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Blair County: Pennsylvania State University at Altoona (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Canoe Creek, the Bureau of Forestry in Blair County and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Blair County (state agency); the Altoona School District (other); the Blair County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Blair County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Altoona: 2,265 for 2025, 1,962 for 2024, 2,448 for 2023 and 2,649 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Logan Township: 549 for 2025 and 637 for 2024.
- Allegheny Township: 326 for 2025, 362 for 2024 and 333 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Tyrone: 257 for 2025, 269 for 2024, 527 for 2020 and 346 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Hollidaysburg: 254 for 2025 and 328 for 2020; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Blair County Sheriff's Office: 122 for 2025 and 172 for 2024.
- Greenfield Township: 86 for 2025, 85 for 2023 and 48 for 2022; 2024 is missing months.
- Blair Township: 32 for 2025, 36 for 2024, 38 for 2020 and 56 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Bellwood: 24 for 2025, 13 for 2024, 10 for 2020 and 24 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- North Woodbury: 14 for 2025, 9 for 2024 and 12 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Roaring Spring: 4 for 2025, 3 for 2024 and 12 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Martinsburg: 1 for 2025, 2 for 2024 and 9 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the 13 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,934 arrests that year. The 11 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,594 in 2025 against 3,465 in 2024, up 3.7 percent.
Williamsburg and Freedom Township reported only part of 2025 (11 months and 10 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Blair County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Blair County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 340 people, up from about 330 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 350 beds, and it ran at 96 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at inmatelocator.cor.pa.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Blair County
An arrest in Blair County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Blair County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at ujsportal.pacourts.us/casesearch); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at blaircountypa.gov/courts/district-attorney, phone (814) 693-3010).
Statewide, UJS Web Portal is the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search.
Pennsylvania is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: PATCH lets anyone request a criminal record check by name online, for $22 a search, through the Pennsylvania State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Blair County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Right-to-Know Law the agency must answer within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension, and it may charge copying at 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Blair County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Altoona, Hollidaysburg, Tyrone, Roaring Spring, Martinsburg, Bellwood or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Pennsylvania State University at Altoona, the State Park Rangers at Canoe Creek or the Altoona School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (814) 693-3010, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Blair County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at ujsportal.pacourts.us/casesearch.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Blair County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for eight of the nine cities in Blair County: Altoona, Hollidaysburg, Tyrone, Roaring Spring, Martinsburg, Bellwood, Duncansville and Williamsburg. Newry has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries Greenfield Township Police Department, Blair County, the Blair Township Police Department, the North Woodbury Police Department and three more as city agencies in Blair County; Greenfield Township, Blair Township, North Woodbury and three more are not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Blair County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Blair County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Altoona (42,719)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Blair County each year?
Altoona reported 2,265 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 13 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,934 between them.
Where are people arrested in Blair County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Blair County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Blair County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Pennsylvania State Police: PATCH lets anyone request a criminal record check by name online, for $22. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Right-to-Know Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Blair County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Blair County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension.
Is this the official Blair County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.