Ambridge, PA has a F safety grade (19/100) with a violent crime rate of 1387 per 100,000, 294% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
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.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Ambridge, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
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.
Across 1.5 Census sq mi, Ambridge logged 59.9 property and 63.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Ambridge's 2024 book concentrates in aggravated assault (50% of 184 offenses; mix index 4,233).
Violent offenses are 52% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Ambridge offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| 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
| 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 Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ambridge's 184 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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.
Ambridge sits at 1,386.9/100K violent (grade F); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Ambridge reported 95 violent crimes and 89 property crimes, for a total of 184 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Ambridge's violent crime rate increased by 28.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.6%.
The most common crime type in Ambridge is aggravated assault, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (92 incidents in 2024).
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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