Jeannette, PA has a C safety grade (40/100) with a violent crime rate of 551 per 100,000, 56% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Jeannette is a small municipal reporter (8,534 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with PA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Jeannette, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 56% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jeannette, PA shows violent crime at 550.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 609.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C 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 255.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 550.7 in 2024 (+115.8%). The highest observed value was 839.2 in 2023 and the lowest 255.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 47.5% of the 99 Part I offenses reported in Jeannette for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 37.5 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 550.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jeannette ranks 33 of 838 — above 805 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +743.2% 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 Jeannette's 550.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Conewango Township (541.0), Ashley (536.8), Folcroft (536.0), York (530.1). 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.
Jeannette'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 2.4 Census sq mi, Jeannette logged 21.8 property and 19.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Jeannette's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (46% of 99 offenses; mix index 4,356).
Violent offenses are 47% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Jeannette offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.4 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 | 52 | 609.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 46 | 539 |
| Burglary | 6 | 70.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 47 | 550.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 46 | 539 |
| Rape | 1 | 11.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,011 | 255.2 | 344 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,936 | 458.8 | 436.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,636 | 752.7 | 347.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,580 | 839.2 | 792.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,534 | 550.7 | 609.3 |
Jeannette Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Jeannette's 99 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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 Jeannette in population. Their populations run from 8,388 to 8,654, against 8,534 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Jeannette sits at 550.7/100K violent (grade C); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Jeannette reported 47 violent crimes and 52 property crimes, for a total of 99 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Jeannette's violent crime rate decreased by 34.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.1%.
The most common crime type in Jeannette is larceny-theft, accounting for 46.5% of all reported crimes (46 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Jeannette 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 Jeannette's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Jeannette, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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