Crime in Swissvale, Pennsylvania
Major crime in Swissvale is 24% above the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 28% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% 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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Motor vehicle theft and vandalism stand out most, at about 2.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Swissvale 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 Swissvale
The middle half of Swissvale residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 81 and 158; the typical (median) resident's is 108.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10043.1%
- 100–20048.6%
- 200–4008.2%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.5% 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.
Swissvale against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
387 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Swissvale; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Swissvale 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, Edgewood (1 mi), is 34% above Swissvale's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Swissvale
What are the most common crimes in Swissvale?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 67 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 30 a year) and shoplifting (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 2.4 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. Swissvale's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Swissvale 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: 8,126. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Swissvale, Pennsylvania." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/pa/swissvale
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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