Crime rate & statistics
Seattle Crime Rate & Safety Statistics
What Seattle's numbers say once you separate the headline-grabbing corridors from the city as a whole.
Key indices
Seattle crime at a glance
Index values are scaled so that 100 equals the U.S. average.
Your odds
Estimated victimization risk
Calibrated against national benchmark rates and expressed as everyday odds.
Trend
Is crime rising or falling in Seattle?
Reported incidents per month over the most recent year of data.
Context
How to read these numbers
Seattle's crime profile leans heavily toward property offenses — theft, car prowls, and shoplifting — which sit well above national norms, while violent crime is more contained and clusters in specific downtown and arterial pockets. Looking at multi-year trends rather than a single quarter avoids being misled by short-term swings tied to enforcement changes and downtown conditions.
We convert Seattle's reported incidents into estimated rates per 100,000 residents against national benchmarks, then restate them as everyday odds — the approximate “1 in N” annual chance. Index values are anchored so 100 marks the national average, and the A-to-F letter grades ride a single curve calibrated across U.S. cities, so a Seattle grade is directly comparable to one elsewhere.