Bellevue, WA has a C safety grade (57/100) with a violent crime rate of 139 per 100,000, 61% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Bellevue, WA Crime Rate & Safety
At 151,520 residents, Bellevue is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against WA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Bellevue, WA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 61% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bellevue, WA shows violent crime at 138.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,339.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 61% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
138.6/100K violent
3339.5/100K property
-61% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bellevue, WA
Comparable rate records
Bellevue's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Washington cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bellevue's 138.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Normandy Park (139.5), Moxee (140.5), Granite Falls (142.0), West Richland (145.8). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 119.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 138.6 in 2024 (+15.9%). The highest observed value was 159.8 in 2022 and the lowest 119.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 4.0% of the 5,270 Part I offenses reported in Bellevue for 2024, against a median of 9.3% across comparable Washington cities — a gap of 5.3 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Position in the state cohort
Bellevue sits mid-pack among comparable Washington cities
At 138.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bellevue ranks 98 of 164 — above 66 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -25.8% against the cohort median of 186.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Bellevue'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Bellevue's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 33.5 Census sq mi, Bellevue logged 151.2 property and 6.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bellevue's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 5,270 offenses; mix index 5,958).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (33.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-8.8%
152 → 138.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-3.5%
3461.4 → 3339.5/100K
Property offenses lead Bellevue's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
5,060
3339.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
3,995
2636.6
-
Burglary
549
362.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
516
340.5
-
Arson
13
8.6
-
Violent Crime
210
138.6
352
Aggravated Assault
117
77.2
-
Robbery
77
50.8
-
Rape
15
9.9
-
Murder
1
0.7
-
Bellevue Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bellevue 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
Bellevue Police Department
Reporting agency for Bellevue NIBRS-participating
Bellevue Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bellevue's 5,270 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Washington cities closest to Bellevue in population. Their populations run from 95,717 to 198,194, against 151,520 here. Or use our
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Bellevue at 138.6/100K violent and 3,339.5/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Bellevue reported 210 violent crimes and 5,060 property crimes, for a total of 5,270 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bellevue?
From 2023 to 2024, Bellevue's violent crime rate decreased by 8.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.5%.
What is the most common crime in Bellevue?
The most common crime type in Bellevue is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.8% of all reported crimes (3,995 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Bellevue's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bellevue, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.