East McKeesport, PA has a B safety grade (63/100) with a violent crime rate of 285 per 100,000, 19% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
East McKeesport's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,458). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to PA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
East McKeesport, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 19% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East McKeesport, PA shows violent crime at 284.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,017.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B 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 77.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 284.8 in 2024 (+268.5%). The highest observed value was 284.8 in 2024 and the lowest 38.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
East McKeesport reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,458. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 284.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East McKeesport ranks 95 of 838 — above 743 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +336.0% 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 East McKeesport's 284.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bridgeville (284.7), Aldan (285.9), Collingdale (283.7), Hamburg (286.5). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.9% of the 32 Part I offenses reported in East McKeesport for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 11.9 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 68.0% of reported property offenses in East McKeesport, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (6) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate East McKeesport'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.
Based on 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,458. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.4 Census sq mi, East McKeesport logged 60.5 property and 16.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
East McKeesport leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,691.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
East McKeesport offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.4 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 | 25 | 1017.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 17 | 691.6 |
| Burglary | 6 | 244.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 81.4 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 7 | 284.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 284.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 2,588 | 77.3 | 231.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,568 | 38.9 | 311.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,517 | 79.5 | 397.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,490 | 80.3 | 1485.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,458 | 284.8 | 1017.1 |
East McKeesport Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East McKeesport's 32 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 East McKeesport in population. Their populations run from 2,428 to 2,488, against 2,458 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
East McKeesport sits at 284.8/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, East McKeesport reported 7 violent crimes and 25 property crimes, for a total of 32 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, East McKeesport's violent crime rate increased by 254.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31.5%.
The most common crime type in East McKeesport is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.1% of all reported crimes (17 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: East McKeesport's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how East McKeesport's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East McKeesport, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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