Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Penn Hills’ weakest subject grade is a C− for schools. Longue Vue Club and Golf Course is on the National Register of Historic Places. Penn Hills has no overall grade: it has no figures for cost of living, safety and health, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
Where Penn Hills beats most towns.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Penn Hills is from typical.
Penn Hills has no overall grade: it has no figures for cost of living, safety and health, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,821 in 1860, a peak of 62,886 in 1970, 41,059 in 2020. The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 1923 and 2 maps from 1953 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Penn Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw10 mi Stadium & arenaAcrisure Stadium
7 mi Theme parkKennywood
10 mi LandmarkFort Duquesne
10 mi Stadium & arenaPNC Park
9 mi Stadium & arenaPPG Paints Arena
10 mi LandmarkFort PittAcrisure Stadium: Fo2grfr, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kennywood: Ski2007 of English Wikipedia, Public domain · Fort Duquesne: Sébastien Paquin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PNC Park: alpineinc, CC BY 2.0 · PPG Paints Arena: Jleedev, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Pitt: Downtown_Pittsburgh_May_2008.jpg: Allie Caufield derivative work: GrapedApe (tal, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Penn Hills, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Penn Hills.
Households in Penn Hills have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2004. Expected damage from storms and floods is lower here than in 95% of U.S. communities. Paid flood insurance claims in the town since 1979: 40. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 66% come from inland flooding and 20% from cold waves.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The largest public high school is Penn Hills SHS, with 1,049 students. Penn Hills SD runs its public schools. Below: Two of its 5 schools, each with why it was picked.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penn Hills El SchLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 1,228 | C− |
| Penn Hills SHSLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,049 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
For Penn Hills, the typical July afternoon high is 83°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Penn Hills's reported crime rate is below Pennsylvania's. In Penn Hills, the violent crime rate is 3.7 per 1,000 residents. Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts.
| Penn Hills | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2024) | 3.7 per 1,000 residents | 0.8 | 1.7 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2024) | 10.5 per 1,000 residents | 6.7 | 11.5 |
FBI crime data, 2024 · crimes reported to police
Penn Hills’ trail network density stands at 0.7 miles per square mile, above both the Pennsylvania town median (0.4) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). Across 13 parks and preserves: 14 miles of trail. The biggest park or preserve is Churchill Valley Greenway, at 47 acres.
| Penn Hills | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 3% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.7 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Churchill Valley Greenway | 0.7 mi | 47 |
| 2. Penn Hills Community Park | 0.5 mi | 29 |
| 3. Friendship Park | 0.1 mi | 22 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
15 within 15 miles of the center of Penn Hills
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Penn Hills is a township with home rule status in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 41,059 as of the 2020 census. A suburb of Pittsburgh, Penn Hills is the second-largest municipality in Allegheny County.
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10 towns share a border with Penn Hills.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn Hills | — | — | — | — | C− | — |
| Plum | #19 | A+ | B− | — | A | A |
| Monroeville | #636 | B | C+ | C | B− | A− |
| Pittsburgh | #928 | C− | B− | D | C | B+ |
| Verona | — | — | B+ | C− | A | C− |
| Oakmont | #174 | A | C− | B+ | A | A |
| Wilkinsburg | #1003 | D | B− | D | C− | C− |
| Churchill | #237 | A | B− | A− | D | A |
Verona has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Penn Hills and Plum report no FBI crime data of their own. Penn Hills isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Penn Hills with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Penn Hills has no overall grade: it has no figures for cost of living, safety and health, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
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