CrimeMetric

Crime in Clairton, Pennsylvania

Major crime in Clairton is 23% below the U.S. rate per resident: 5% lower for persons crimes and 27% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
77
23% below the U.S. rate
8% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 8.5% in a year
Persons crimes
95
5% below the U.S. rate
36% above the Pennsylvania rate
down 5.3% in a year
Property crimes
73
27% below the U.S. rate
16% below the Pennsylvania rate
down 9.4% in a year
Social disorder
108
8% above the U.S. rate
23% above the Pennsylvania rate
down 6.4% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Murder stands out most, at 3.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Clairton for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Clairton

The middle half of Clairton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 56 and 84; the typical (median) resident's is 81.

Map of Clairton, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5019.5%
  • 50–10069.0%
  • 100–20011.5%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weeknights

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm71
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am85
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm76
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am77
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.5% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.5%PA -8.6%-18.1%PA -14.0%
Persons crimes-5.3%PA -5.5%-8.4%PA -6.0%
Property crimes-9.4%PA -9.2%-20.9%PA -15.4%
Social disorder-6.4%PA -6.1%-13.3%PA -8.5%

Change in expected crimes, with Pennsylvania as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Clairton against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

843 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Clairton; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Plymouth, PA5,837195
Clairton, PA5,83677
Sidney, MT5,83476
Goshen, NY5,83124

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Clairton has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Glassport (2 mi), is 6% above Clairton's rate.

McKeesport4 mi227
Duquesne6 mi110
Glassport2 mi82
Clairton77
White Oak5 mi49
Port Vue3 mi27

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Clairton

What are the most common crimes in Clairton?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 19 a year), shoplifting (about 18 a year) and aggravated assault (about 13 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 3.8 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Clairton's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Clairton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 5,836. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Clairton, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/clairton

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100