Duquesne, PA has a F safety grade (22/100) with a violent crime rate of 678 per 100,000, 93% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Duquesne is a small municipal reporter (5,016 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Duquesne, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 93% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Duquesne, PA shows violent crime at 677.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,176.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 93% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 378.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 677.8 in 2024 (+79.3%). The highest observed value was 677.8 in 2024 and the lowest 271.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 36.6% of the 93 Part I offenses reported in Duquesne for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 26.6 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 677.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Duquesne ranks 22 of 838 — above 816 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +937.8% 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 Duquesne's 677.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Middleburg (683.9), Renovo (670.5), Weatherly (665.9), Sharon (653.1). 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.
Property counts dominate Duquesne's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test 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 1.8 Census sq mi, Duquesne logged 32.5 property and 18.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Duquesne leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,558.
Violent offenses are 37% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Duquesne offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 59 | 1176.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 47 | 937 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 139.6 |
| Arson | 6 | 119.6 |
| Burglary | 5 | 99.7 |
| Violent Crime | 34 | 677.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 27 | 538.3 |
| Robbery | 5 | 99.7 |
| Rape | 2 | 39.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,556 | 378 | 450 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,528 | 271.3 | 253.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,143 | 350 | 1205.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,079 | 413.5 | 1142 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,016 | 677.8 | 1176.2 |
Duquesne Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Duquesne's 93 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Pennsylvania cities closest to Duquesne in population. Their populations run from 4,925 to 5,093, against 5,016 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Duquesne sits at 677.8/100K violent (grade F); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Duquesne reported 34 violent crimes and 59 property crimes, for a total of 93 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Duquesne's violent crime rate increased by 63.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 3%.
The most common crime type in Duquesne is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.5% of all reported crimes (47 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Duquesne 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 Duquesne's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Duquesne, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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