Wilkinsburg, PA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 67% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wilkinsburg, PA shows violent crime at 586.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,440.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 67% 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
586.3/100K violent
2440.3/100K property
+67% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Wilkinsburg, PA
Position in the state cohort
Wilkinsburg reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Pennsylvania cities
At 586.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wilkinsburg ranks 30 of 838 — above 808 of the 837 other Pennsylvania cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +797.6% 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
Wilkinsburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Pennsylvania cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Wilkinsburg's 586.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Johnstown (586.5), Darby Township (581.6), Eddystone (576.6), Coatesville (618.6). 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 49.5% of reported property offenses in Wilkinsburg, against a cohort median of 85.9%. The remainder is burglary (73) and motor vehicle theft (95). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 827.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 586.3 in 2024 (-29.1%). The highest observed value was 830.5 in 2022 and the lowest 586.3 in 2024. 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 19.4% of the 413 Part I offenses reported in Wilkinsburg for 2024, against a median of 10.0% across comparable Pennsylvania cities — a gap of 9.4 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 Wilkinsburg'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.
Wilkinsburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.3 Census sq mi, Wilkinsburg logged 147.8 property and 35.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wilkinsburg leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,607.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+23%
1983.9 → 2440.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-13.9%
680.6 → 586.3/100K
Property offenses lead Wilkinsburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs PA
Property Crime
333
2440.3
1457.1
Larceny-Theft
165
1209.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
95
696.2
-
Burglary
73
535
-
Arson
3
22
-
Violent Crime
80
586.3
249.5
Aggravated Assault
49
359.1
-
Robbery
20
146.6
-
Rape
9
66
-
Murder
2
14.7
-
Wilkinsburg 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.
Wilkinsburg 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 averages
Wilkinsburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Wilkinsburg NIBRS-participating
Wilkinsburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wilkinsburg's 413 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, Wilkinsburg reported 80 violent crimes and 333 property crimes, for a total of 413 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Wilkinsburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Wilkinsburg's violent crime rate decreased by 13.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 23%.
What is the most common crime in Wilkinsburg?
The most common crime type in Wilkinsburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 40.0% of all reported crimes (165 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Wilkinsburg 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Wilkinsburg, PA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.