Crime in Washington (2024)
Washington agencies reported 222,739 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 25,841 violent crimes, 195,801 property crimes and 1,097 arsons, across 248 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 7,927,958 (Census estimates). A floor: Washington agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 303 | 0.1% |
| Rape | 2,983 | 1.3% |
| Robbery | 5,365 | 2.4% |
| Aggravated assault | 17,190 | 7.7% |
| Burglary | 31,853 | 14.3% |
| Larceny-theft | 129,517 | 58.1% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 34,431 | 15.5% |
| Arson | 1,097 | 0.5% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (39 of Washington's counties).
- Adams County
- Asotin County
- Benton County
- Chelan County
- Clallam County
- Clark County
- Columbia County
- Cowlitz County
- Douglas County
- Ferry County
- Franklin County
- Garfield County
- Grant County
- Grays Harbor County
- Island County
- Jefferson County
- King County
- Kitsap County
- Kittitas County
- Klickitat County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Mason County
- Okanogan County
- Pacific County
- Pend Oreille County
- Pierce County
- San Juan County
- Skagit County
- Skamania County
- Snohomish County
- Spokane County
- Stevens County
- Thurston County
- Wahkiakum County
- Walla Walla County
- Whatcom County
- Whitman County
- Yakima County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Police Department | 5,891 | 38,061 | 44,105 |
| Tacoma Police Department | 2,381 | 12,551 | 15,041 |
| Spokane Police Department | 1,549 | 11,111 | 12,787 |
| Vancouver Police Department | 1,154 | 6,753 | 7,940 |
| Pierce County Sheriff's Office | 1,193 | 5,826 | 7,053 |
| Kent Police Department | 648 | 4,990 | 5,672 |
| Bellevue Police Department | 210 | 5,060 | 5,283 |
| Federal Way Police Department | 527 | 4,225 | 4,776 |
| Spokane Valley Police Department | 266 | 3,862 | 4,141 |
| Bellingham Police Department | 335 | 3,596 | 3,939 |
| King County Sheriff's Office | 490 | 3,374 | 3,908 |
| Everett Police Department | 295 | 3,582 | 3,895 |
| Renton Police Department | 352 | 3,438 | 3,800 |
| Auburn Police Department | 450 | 3,287 | 3,755 |
| Snohomish County Sheriff's Office | 442 | 3,243 | 3,698 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.