Airway Heights, WA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 6% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Airway Heights, WA shows violent crime at 371.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,896.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 6% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
371.5/100K violent
3896.7/100K property
+6% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Airway Heights, WA
Comparable rate records
Airway Heights's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Washington cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Airway Heights's 371.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cheney (371.2), Aberdeen (370.4), Puyallup (374.7), Kennewick (367.0). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Airway Heights reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Washington cities
At 371.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Airway Heights ranks 30 of 164 — above 134 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +102.0% against the cohort median of 183.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 279.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 371.5 in 2024 (+32.8%). The highest observed value was 538.4 in 2021 and the lowest 279.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Airway Heights's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Airway Heights's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 6 Census sq mi, Airway Heights logged 71.5 property and 6.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Airway Heights's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 471 offenses; mix index 5,387).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-11.9%
4425 → 3896.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-1.5%
377.2 → 371.5/100K
Property offenses lead Airway Heights's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
430
3896.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
338
3063
-
Burglary
46
416.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
46
416.9
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
41
371.5
352
Aggravated Assault
31
280.9
-
Rape
7
63.4
-
Robbery
3
27.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
Airway Heights Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Airway Heights property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Airway Heights Police Department
Reporting agency for Airway Heights NIBRS-participating
Airway Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Airway Heights's 471 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Washington
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Airway Heights at 371.5/100K violent and 3,896.7/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Airway Heights reported 41 violent crimes and 430 property crimes, for a total of 471 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Airway Heights?
From 2023 to 2024, Airway Heights's violent crime rate decreased by 1.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.9%.
What is the most common crime in Airway Heights?
The most common crime type in Airway Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.8% of all reported crimes (338 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Airway Heights figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Airway Heights, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.