Pennsylvania, Allegheny County
Where Pittsburgh's records are kept. Pittsburgh has its own city government, police department and fire department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Pittsburgh's own offices, along with State of Pennsylvania offices; the Allegheny County offices are on our Allegheny County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
Pennsylvania State Police online criminal record check. Results are printed by the requester, not mailed; card payments carry a 2% fee since April 22, 2026, and notarized copies must be requested by mail.
Open official site Pennsylvania Access to Criminal History (PATCH)State records
Archive run by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission that keeps the permanent public records of the Commonwealth, chiefly state government records, plus papers of private citizens and groups tied to Pennsylvania history.
Open official site Pennsylvania State ArchivesCounty court
Bankruptcy court for western Pennsylvania with clerk offices at the U.S. Steel Tower in Pittsburgh and in Erie, open 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., plus a Johnstown office.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of PennsylvaniaVital records
Health Department's Bureau of Health Statistics and Registries holds Pennsylvania birth, death and fetal death records from 1906 on. Order birth certificates online or at public offices; they meet REAL ID rules.
Open official site Pennsylvania Department of Health Vital RecordsPolice & jail
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections search for people in state prisons or under department supervision, by name, inmate or parole number, gender, committing county or current location.
Open official site Pennsylvania DOC Inmate LocatorPolice & jail
The PSP Criminal Investigation Assessment Unit runs Pennsylvania AMBER Alerts for child abductions and issues Missing Endangered Person Advisory (MEPA) messages, both posted on the PSP X account.
Open official site Pennsylvania State Police AMBER Alert and MEPAPolice & jail
Current Pennsylvania State Police flyer of its ten most wanted fugitives, with photos, descriptions, last known addresses and the crimes each is wanted for. Tips go to PSP Tips at 1-800-472-8477.
Open official site Pennsylvania State Police Ten Most WantedPolice & jail
PSP public site on registered sexual offenders in Pennsylvania, searchable by county, municipality, ZIP code, mile radius or name, with lists of noncompliant, transient and sexually violent offenders.
Open official site Pennsylvania State Police Megan's Law WebsiteFederal
U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts for Pittsburgh city, Pennsylvania, with population, veterans, foreign born share, housing and rents, households, commuting, income and poverty, plus basic business and geography data.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
City of Pittsburgh site, City Hall at 414 Grant Street, with 311 service requests, permits and licenses, the city meeting hub, tax and real estate, dog licenses, trash schedules and bid opportunities.
Open official site City of PittsburghPolice & jail
Police services information 1203 Western Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15233 Phone: 412-323-7800
Open official site City of Pittsburgh Police BureauCity records
Fire services information Emergency: Dial 911 200 Ross Street, 5th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (412) 255-2860
Open official site City of Pittsburgh Fire BureauEverything else, organized
11 more Pittsburgh sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Pittsburgh, a place of 302,971 people, is the seat of Allegheny County. Court and property records sit with Allegheny County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh's own offices are in the cards above, and our Allegheny County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 4 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 1 site producing when the record was made, 2 processing plants, which are not workings; the old survey maps add 4 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 1 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Zinc; Fire Clay (Refractory).
A point in either file is a location, not a property line: the sheet shows the opening on the surface, not the rooms under it. The record that shows what runs under a parcel is the mine map. The OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds scanned underground mine maps and answers requests for a named mine or an area. DEP has an address lookup for mine subsidence risk at gis.dep.pa.gov/msiRisk where you enter a street address: if the site falls in a gray Underground Mining Area it is over or near a known mined area. The PHUMMIS inventory of historic underground mine maps sits at www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/Phummis and is linked from the DEP Act 54 maps page.
Rows taken off the old survey maps open the USGS record of what sits at that spot, because no single feature on those maps has a page of its own. Rows from the mine records open their own USGS page.
Pittsburgh sits over the Appalachian Region coal field and the coal there is medium and high volatile bituminous, worked underground in many places. The two federal files record a shaft, an adit or a deposit where one was drawn on a survey sheet or catalogued as a site; neither file carries the outline of the workings, so the counts above are not the measure of what was mined under this town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by Pennsylvania Mine Map Atlas (DEP, hosted by Penn State) and linked below.
Pennsylvania abandoned mine maps ranks every county and town in the state by the workings recorded inside it, names the office that holds the mine maps, and says what to do if the ground moves.
Disclaimer: The mine information here is for general information only. Old mine records can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and finding nothing here does not mean there is nothing there. Check with the mine map office named here before you rely on it, and have a qualified engineer look at any ground you are worried about. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 1,513 investigations with a Pittsburgh address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $15,438,571 in back wages agreed for 15,741 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neoly Home Care, LLC | 3 | $1,552,233 | 225 |
| Elder Resource Managment, Inc. | 2 | $1,242,147 | 345 |
| General Nutrition Centers Inc. | 1 | $877,146 | 645 |
| Christian Home Healthcare, Corp. | 1 | $812,675 | 546 |
| APlus United Home Care LLC | 3 | $760,499 | 331 |
| Everest Home Care, LLC | 2 | $719,962 | 218 |
| Loving Kindness Healthcare Systems, LLC | 1 | $679,302 | 93 |
| Serenitycare LLC | 1 | $525,620 | 47 |
| Excel Companion Care, LLC | 5 | $514,676 | 1,827 |
| NEP, Inc. | 1 | $347,832 | 200 |
| Family Behavioral Resources, Inc. | 1 | $305,476 | 472 |
| FGMA, Inc. | 4 | $305,155 | 25 |
| Mesmo, Inc | 1 | $226,027 | 69 |
| Galax-eSystems Corporation | 2 | $174,353 | 16 |
| Passavant Memorial Homes | 3 | $166,934 | 514 |
| Wexford Health Sources, Inc. | 7 | $139,298 | 574 |
| Davison Design & Development, Inc. | 1 | $137,500 | 164 |
| Patriot Home Care, Inc | 2 | $128,795 | 199 |
| Precision Steel Contracting, Inc | 1 | $126,457 | 6 |
| Highmark, Inc | 3 | $120,900 | 96 |
| East End Brewing Company, Inc. | 1 | $119,224 | 29 |
| Conn-X, LLC | 1 | $118,828 | 107 |
| Plaza Azteca Robinson Township, Inc | 1 | $118,177 | 28 |
| Industrial Appraisal Company | 1 | $115,000 | 15 |
| Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control Inc. | 1 | $111,414 | 33 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 1,261 whose address on the record is in Pittsburgh; 358 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 1,236 more with smaller records are on the Pennsylvania wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
Open only the answer you need.
Voter registration in Pennsylvania is run by the Pennsylvania Department of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Pittsburgh.
Deeds for property in Pittsburgh are recorded by the Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Allegheny County page lists the county offices.
Businesses that operate in Pittsburgh register with the Pennsylvania Department of State, which runs the state business entity search. A local business license, where Pittsburgh requires one, comes from the town or Allegheny County.
Same county
Use the city page when a record was created by a municipal police department or city office; use the county page for courts, deeds, vital records and jail custody.