Monongahela, PA has a B safety grade (65/100) with a violent crime rate of 330 per 100,000, 6% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Monongahela (11,507 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
Monongahela, PA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 6% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Monongahela, PA shows violent crime at 330.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 243.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 6% 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 82.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 330.2 in 2024 (+302.4%). The highest observed value was 330.2 in 2024 and the lowest 82.1 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 57.6% of the 66 Part I offenses reported in Monongahela for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 47.6 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 330.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Monongahela ranks 79 of 838 — above 759 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +405.6% 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 Monongahela's 330.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pottsville (329.3), Tinicum Township, Delaware County (329.0), Gaines Township (331.7), Bangor (332.7). 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 53.6% of reported property offenses in Monongahela, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (9) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Monongahela's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 1.9 Census sq mi, Monongahela logged 14.6 property and 19.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Monongahela leans on aggravated assault at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,584.
Violent offenses are 58% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Monongahela offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.9 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 | 38 | 330.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 304.2 |
| Murder | 2 | 17.4 |
| Robbery | 1 | 8.7 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 28 | 243.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 15 | 130.4 |
| Burglary | 9 | 78.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 34.8 |
| Arson | 3 | 26.1 |
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 · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,749 | 82.1 | 451.3 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 9,720 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,441 | 180.1 | 286 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,454 | 261.9 | 244.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,507 | 330.2 | 243.3 |
Monongahela Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Monongahela's 66 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 Monongahela in population. Their populations run from 11,231 to 11,756, against 11,507 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Monongahela sits at 330.2/100K violent (grade B); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Monongahela at 330.2/100K violent and 243.3/100K property - matched below outside Pennsylvania (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
330.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
243.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Monongahela reported 38 violent crimes and 28 property crimes, for a total of 66 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Monongahela's violent crime rate increased by 26.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.5%.
The most common crime type in Monongahela is aggravated assault, accounting for 53.0% of all reported crimes (35 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Monongahela 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 Monongahela's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Monongahela, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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