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Pittsburgh, PA · the CityFunIndex

Safety in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh ranks T#59 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 56 — Fun. That puts it in the 57th percentile nationally and #1 of 2 in Pennsylvania.

safety score
56
Fun
National rank
T#59 of 134
In Pennsylvania
#1 of 2
Percentile
57th

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Pittsburgh sits 6 points above the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Pittsburgh

  1. #57 Phoenix, AZ 58
  2. #58 Miami, FL 57
  3. T#59 Pittsburgh, PA — this page 56
  4. #61 Glendale, AZ 55
  5. #62 San Jose, CA 54

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh scores 94 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: