West Homestead, PA has a D safety grade (32/100) with a violent crime rate of 505 per 100,000, 43% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
West Homestead's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,782). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to PA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
West Homestead, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 43% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Homestead, PA shows violent crime at 505.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,020.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 43% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 53.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 505.1 in 2024 (+837.9%). The highest observed value was 505.1 in 2024 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
West Homestead reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,782. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 505.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Homestead ranks 41 of 838 — above 797 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +673.2% 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 West Homestead's 505.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Stowe Township (506.9), Butler (501.0), Warren (519.8), Hummelstown (489.7). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.0% of the 45 Part I offenses reported in West Homestead for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 10.0 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 63.9% of reported property offenses in West Homestead, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (6) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate West Homestead'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.
Based on 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,782. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.9 Census sq mi, West Homestead logged 39 property and 9.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
West Homestead leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,353.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
West Homestead offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 36 | 2020.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 23 | 1290.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 392.8 |
| Burglary | 6 | 336.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 505.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 448.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 56.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
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 | 1,857 | 53.9 | 484.7 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 1,847 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,821 | 109.8 | 1043.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,802 | 111 | 3107.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,782 | 505.1 | 2020.2 |
West Homestead Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Homestead's 45 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 West Homestead in population. Their populations run from 1,758 to 1,815, against 1,782 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
West Homestead sits at 505.1/100K violent (grade D); the Pennsylvania cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, West Homestead reported 9 violent crimes and 36 property crimes, for a total of 45 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, West Homestead's violent crime rate increased by 355%, and the property crime rate decreased by 35%.
The most common crime type in West Homestead is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.1% of all reported crimes (23 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: West Homestead's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how West Homestead's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 West Homestead, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
Put this to use
Put the West Homestead, PA FBI UCR record to work: compare peers, open the state atlas, or look up another city.
A citywide UCR rate is a starting point, not a neighbourhood verdict: read the full profile and the year coverage notes before drawing conclusions.
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. West Homestead is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (1,782 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.