Custer City, PA Violent Crime Rates and Maps

Violent Crime per Capita in Custer City

Violent crime covers assault, robbery, rape, and murder, offenses that threaten people directly. Nationally it is rarer than property crime but carries far heavier consequences. The map below shows the violent crime rate per 1,000 Custer City residents.

 

Custer City, PA Map of Violent Crime Rates
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Overall Crime Grade™

Violent Crime Grade
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Other Crime Grade
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$113,960

Cost of Crime™ for Custer City, PA

In 2025, violent crime will cost $616 per household.

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On the map, green marks the parts of Custer City with the least violent crime and red marks the most, weighted by the type and severity of each offense. Violent crime concentrates where people gather after dark, near nightlife, bars, and transit, more than on residential streets. The Interpreting the Crime Maps section below explains how to read those hot spots.

The C+ grade reflects how often assault, robbery, rape, and murder occur in Custer City against the average US city, where the rate is about the same as the norm. Custer City sits in the 46th percentile for violent-crime safety, ahead of 46% of cities and behind 54%. The grade covers only Custer City's official city boundaries. See the table below for nearby cities.

The violent crime rate in Custer City is 3.078 per 1,000 residents in a typical year. Residents generally consider the east part of the city the safest. Your chance of being a victim ranges from 1 in 244 in the southwest neighborhoods to 1 in 344 in the east.

Counting total incidents instead of per-capita rates, the east parts of Custer City, PA report the most violent crime, about 1 cases per year. The southeast part reports the fewest, around 0 per year.

The Cost of Crime™ in Custer City, PA

The tangible cost of violent crime in Custer City is projected at $113,960 for 2025, about $263 per resident and $616 per household. That equals 0.9% of the median household income, and it counts only the bills that can be totaled: emergency care, lost wages, and the justice response. The larger cost, the harm to victims, comes later on this page. These tangible costs split into:
  1. Criminal justice system costs (law enforcement, courts, and imprisonment): 39.6%
  2. Direct costs to victims (damaged property, medical expenses, and lost wages): 47.1%
  3. Lost economic contribution from offenders (time in prison or repeat offenses): 13.2%

How Much Does Violent Crime Cost in Custer City Compared to Other Cities?

Custer City, PA: $263
Duquesne, PA: $795
Lewisberry, PA: $69
Pennsylvania: $227
USA: $258

The tangible cost of violent crime is $263 per resident each year in Custer City, which is $5 more than the national average and $36 more than Pennsylvania's state average. The comparison below uses cities similar to Custer City:
  • In Duquesne, PA, crime costs $795 per person, which is $532 more than in Custer City.
  • In Lewisberry, PA, crime costs $69 per person, which is $194 less than in Custer City

2025 Projected Violent Crime Cost by Type

The table below breaks the violent-crime total into its four offenses for Custer City, with the projected cost per resident.
Crime
Cost to Custer City
Cost per Custer City Resident
Murder
$70,238
$162
Rape/Sexual Assault
$10,654
$25
Robbery
$10,485
$24
Assault
$22,583
$52
Total Cost of Violent Crime
$113,960
$263

The Human Cost of Violent Crime in Custer City, PA

Much of what violent crime costs never reaches a bill. Pain, trauma, and lost quality of life for victims and their families typically outweigh the medical and legal totals above. Research-based methods put a figure on that harm so it can be compared across places. By those methods, the human cost of violent crime in Custer City totals $527,341 ($1,218 per resident). Added to the tangible costs, the full estimate reaches $641,301 ($1,481 per resident). This human toll is what sets violent crime apart from property crime in Custer City, PA, where the loss is mostly replaceable property. All Cost of Crime figures come from scholarly research on the cost of crime. Read more about our methodology here.

Interpreting the Violent Crime Maps

Violent crime rates are measured per resident, so places packed with visitors after dark read high even when few people live there. Bars, clubs, event venues, and transit hubs draw the crowds where assaults and robberies cluster. How strongly this shows on the map depends on the commercial base; the city has few retail establishments. A red block full of bars and venues does not mean the homes around it are dangerous.

Transit stations show the same effect: large moving crowds, few residents, so per-capita violent crime reads high. Before judging a residential street, weigh both the per-capita rate and the total count of incidents, and note what draws crowds nearby.

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Custer City Violent Crime Breakdown

The table below shows which offenses feed the Violent Crime Grade above, each as crimes per 1,000 Custer City residents in a standard year.

Crime Type
Crime Rate
Assault
1.816
Robbery
0.7699
Rape
0.4058
Murder
0.0863
Total Violent Crime
3.078 (C+)

Crime Maps and Rates for Nearby Cities

Compared to surrounding cities, the rate of violent crime in Custer City is similar. The table below shows Crime Grades for cities close to Custer City.

Nearby City
Overall Crime Grade
Violent Crime Grade
Property Crime Grade
A-
C
B+
B+
C
B+
B
C-
B
A
C+
B+
B-
C
C
C+
C-
C-
B+
C
B
B
D+
B
B+
B+
C+
B+
C-
B+

Crime Maps and Rates for City with Similar Populations

Custer City is lower versus other cities of the same size for violent crime. The table below compares crime in cities with comparable overall population in the city‘s boundaries.

Similar City
Overall Crime Grade
Violent Crime Grade
Property Crime Grade
B
C-
C-
A-
C+
C+
F
D+
D+
F
C-
C-
A
A+
A+
B-
C+
C+
B
D-
D-
D+
A+
A+
F
F
F
C
D
D

Considering only the violent crime rate, Custer City is less safe than the Pennsylvania state average and safer than the national average.

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