Pittsburg, CA has a D safety grade (35/100) with a violent crime rate of 460 per 100,000, 31% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Pittsburg, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 75,621 residents, Pittsburg is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Pittsburg, CA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 31% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pittsburg, CA shows violent crime at 460.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,148.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 31% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
460.2/100K violent
2148.9/100K property
+31% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pittsburg, CA
Comparable rate records
Pittsburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pittsburg's 460.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gilroy (461.3), Oceanside (458.7), Fullerton (455.3), South El Monte (466.6). 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 647.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 460.2 in 2024 (-28.9%). The highest observed value was 647.5 in 2020 and the lowest 460.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 47.7% of reported property offenses in Pittsburg, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (243) and motor vehicle theft (607). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Pittsburg sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 460.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pittsburg ranks 156 of 458 — above 302 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +40.1% against the cohort median of 328.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Pittsburg'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Pittsburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 17.7 Census sq mi, Pittsburg logged 91.9 property and 19.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pittsburg leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,801.
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.7 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
-15.9%
547 → 460.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
+0.8%
2131.7 → 2148.9/100K
Property offenses lead Pittsburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,625
2148.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
775
1024.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
607
802.7
-
Burglary
243
321.3
-
Arson
7
9.3
-
Violent Crime
348
460.2
352
Aggravated Assault
233
308.1
-
Robbery
85
112.4
-
Rape
28
37
-
Murder
2
2.6
-
Pittsburg 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.
Pittsburg property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Pittsburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Pittsburg NIBRS-participating
Pittsburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pittsburg's 1,973 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 California
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Pittsburg at 460.2/100K violent and 2,148.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Pittsburg reported 348 violent crimes and 1,625 property crimes, for a total of 1,973 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Pittsburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Pittsburg's violent crime rate decreased by 15.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.8%.
What is the most common crime in Pittsburg?
The most common crime type in Pittsburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 39.3% of all reported crimes (775 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Pittsburg's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pittsburg, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.