Crime & Safety
Pittsburgh-Area Town Is Pennsylvania's Safest Place To Live
Several southwestern Pennsylvania communities rank among the Keystone State's safest. Find out here if yours is one of them.
PITTSBURGH, PA - A new study claims that the safest place in Pennsylvania to live is just beyond Pittsburgh's borders and its location might surprise you. BackgroundChecks.org says it's Munhall, the small community near The Waterfront.
Munhall scored a 0.71 safety index score, including a violent crime rate of 0.54 per 1,000. Those numbers were for 2017, the last year complete statistics were available.
The ratings were calculated using every municipality's most recent crime rate, property crime rate, violent crime rate and the number of employed law enforcement officers.
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Four other southwestern Pennsylvania municipalities ranked among the top 10 safest: Whitehall (4th), Cecil (6), Upper St. Clair (9) and Jefferson Hills (10).
Additionally, 18 other municipalities were ranked among the top 100 safest communities. Listed in order of their state rankings, they are:
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14. West Mifflin
19. Mt. Lebanon
28. South Fayette
30. South Park
40. Franklin Park
41. Adams
45. Peters
52. Murrysville
56. Lower Burrell
58. Hampton
59. Bethel Park
64. McCandless
79. North Fayette
80. Cranberry
92. Baldwin
98. elizabeth
99. Robinson
100. Shaler
You can see the complete rankings by clicking on the link.
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