Ambridge, PA has a F safety grade (19/100) with a violent crime rate of 1387 per 100,000, 294% above the national average.
Ambridge is a small municipal reporter (6,850 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Ambridge, PA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 294% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ambridge, PA shows violent crime at 1,386.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,299.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 294% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
The verdict
Ambridge earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 294% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 51.6% of the 184 Part I offenses reported in Ambridge for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 41.6 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Position in the state cohort
At 1386.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ambridge ranks 2 of 838 — above 836 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +2023.3% against the cohort median of 65.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ambridge's 1386.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Farrell (1307.8), Upland (1288.0), McKeesport (1693.7), Monessen (1063.2). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1571.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1386.9 in 2024 (-11.8%). The highest observed value was 1571.8 in 2020 and the lowest 92.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Ambridge's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 95 | 1386.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 92 | 1343.1 |
| Rape | 2 | 29.2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 14.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 89 | 1299.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 76 | 1109.5 |
| Burglary | 7 | 102.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 87.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,553 | 1571.8 | 1877 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 6,486 | 92.5 | 61.7 |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 6,804 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,761 | 1079.7 | 1700.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,850 | 1386.9 | 1299.3 |
Ambridge's crime figures on this page originate from Ambridge Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Ambridge in population. Their populations run from 6,778 to 6,920, against 6,850 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Pennsylvania cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Ambridge's 1,386.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Small-city read: Ambridge is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Ambridge's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ambridge, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ambridge is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (6,850 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.