Mount Oliver, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 165% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Oliver, PA shows violent crime at 931.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,104.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 165% 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.
F safety grade
931.4/100K violent
3104.6/100K property
+165% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mount Oliver, PA
Position in the state cohort
Mount Oliver reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 931.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Oliver ranks 6 of 838 — above 832 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1326.0% 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
Mount Oliver's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mount Oliver's 931.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Philadelphia (908.7), Uniontown (857.1), Bradford (843.3), Arnold (839.8). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1591.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 931.4 in 2024 (-41.5%). The highest observed value was 1591.7 in 2020 and the lowest 431.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 23.1% of the 130 Part I offenses reported in Mount Oliver for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 13.1 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 counts dominate Mount Oliver'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.
Mount Oliver's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 0.3 Census sq mi, Mount Oliver logged 295 property and 88.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mount Oliver's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 130 offenses; mix index 4,112).
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+32.1%
705.3 → 931.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
+3.3%
3005.2 → 3104.6/100K
Property offenses lead Mount Oliver's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
vs US avg
Property Crime
100
3104.6
1457.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
79
2452.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
12
372.6
-
-
Burglary
9
279.4
-
-
Arson
1
31
-
-
Violent Crime
30
931.4
249.5
352
Aggravated Assault
21
652
-
-
Robbery
6
186.3
-
-
Rape
2
62.1
-
-
Murder
1
31
-
-
Mount Oliver Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Mount Oliver property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Mount Oliver: 931 violent, 3105 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Trafford: 155 violent, 714 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Athens: 93 violent, 1212 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ingram: 31 violent, 1087 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Wilkes-Barre Township: 249 violent, 11560 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Pittston Township: 217 violent, 3347 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Millvale: 187 violent, 592 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Springdale: 155 violent, 742 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Penbrook: 402 violent, 866 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Mount Oliver Police Department
Reporting agency for Mount Oliver NIBRS-participating
Mount Oliver Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mount Oliver's 130 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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.
Similar-Size Cities in Pennsylvania
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In 2024, Mount Oliver reported 30 violent crimes and 100 property crimes, for a total of 130 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mount Oliver?
From 2023 to 2024, Mount Oliver's violent crime rate increased by 32.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.3%.
What is the most common crime in Mount Oliver?
The most common crime type in Mount Oliver is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.8% of all reported crimes (79 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Mount Oliver 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mount Oliver, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.