Pittsburgh Fraud

Pittsburgh · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Pittsburgh police open data recorded 1,133 fraud incidents, 5.2% of all 21,975 incidents reported in the city that year and down 2.1% from 2024. That is about 368 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 839 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Pittsburgh by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)839——
20251,133368down 2.1%
20241,157376—

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 3,129 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Central Business District 74 incidents
  2. Carrick 68 incidents
  3. Brookline 48 incidents
  4. South Side Flats 48 incidents
  5. Squirrel Hill South 41 incidents
  6. East Liberty 35 incidents
  7. Shadyside 33 incidents
  8. Bloomfield 31 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Pittsburgh in 2025?

1,133, according to Pittsburgh Bureau of Police open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Pittsburgh?

Reported fraud was down 2.1% in 2025 compared with 2024.

Where does this data come from?

Source: Pittsburgh Bureau of Police open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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