McKeesport, PA has a F safety grade (8/100) with a violent crime rate of 1694 per 100,000, 381% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
McKeesport (18,480 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then PA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
McKeesport, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 381% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, McKeesport, PA shows violent crime at 1,693.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,564.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 381% 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 39.8% of the 787 Part I offenses reported in McKeesport for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 29.8 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 1693.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, McKeesport ranks 1 of 838 — above 837 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +2493.1% 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 McKeesport's 1693.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ambridge (1386.9), Farrell (1307.8), Upland (1288.0), 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1322.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1693.7 in 2024 (+28.1%). The highest observed value was 1693.7 in 2024 and the lowest 442.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 65.2% of reported property offenses in McKeesport, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (109) and motor vehicle theft (56). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 5 Census sq mi, McKeesport logged 93.9 property and 62 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
McKeesport leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,987.
Violent offenses are 40% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
McKeesport offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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 |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 474 | 2564.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 309 | 1672.1 |
| Burglary | 109 | 589.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 56 | 303 |
| Arson | 10 | 54.1 |
| Violent Crime | 313 | 1693.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 271 | 1466.5 |
| Robbery | 30 | 162.3 |
| Murder | 6 | 32.5 |
| Rape | 6 | 32.5 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 20,647 | 1322.2 | 2276.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 20,551 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 18,852 | 1299.6 | 2328.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 18,703 | 1497.1 | 2849.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 18,480 | 1693.7 | 2564.9 |
McKeesport Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind McKeesport's 787 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 McKeesport in population. Their populations run from 18,000 to 18,949, against 18,480 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
McKeesport sits at 1,693.7/100K violent (grade F); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
McKeesport at 1,693.7/100K violent and 2,564.9/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,693.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,564.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, McKeesport reported 313 violent crimes and 474 property crimes, for a total of 787 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, McKeesport's violent crime rate increased by 13.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10%.
The most common crime type in McKeesport is larceny-theft, accounting for 39.3% of all reported crimes (309 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: McKeesport figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how McKeesport's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 McKeesport, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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