Crime in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Major crime in Pittsburgh is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.5 times for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Intimidation stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Pittsburgh for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Pittsburgh
The middle half of Pittsburgh residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 60 and 168; the typical (median) resident's is 104. The citywide figure (156) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5018.0%
- 50–10029.9%
- 100–20033.0%
- 200–40014.4%
- 400+4.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekends
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.9% in a year; across Pennsylvania it fell 8.6%
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.
Pittsburgh against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
24 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pittsburgh; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Pittsburgh has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mount Oliver (2 mi), is 30% above Pittsburgh's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Pittsburgh
What are the most common crimes in Pittsburgh?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 2,626 a year), shoplifting (about 1,607 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 1,265 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.6 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. Pittsburgh's figures add up its 314 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Pittsburgh's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 48.7% 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: 310,065. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/pittsburgh
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Mount Oliver2 mi203
- Homestead4 mi612
- Etna4 mi32
- Sharpsburg4 mi74
- Edgewood5 mi167
- Brentwood5 mi72
- Swissvale5 mi124
- Green Tree5 mi24