Kennewick, WA has a D safety grade (34/100) with a violent crime rate of 367 per 100,000, 4% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Kennewick, WA Crime Rate & Safety
At 85,553 residents, Kennewick 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.
Kennewick, WA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 4% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kennewick, WA shows violent crime at 367 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,461 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 4% 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
367/100K violent
3461/100K property
+4% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Kennewick, WA
Comparable rate records
Kennewick's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Washington cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Kennewick's 367.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fircrest (364.7), Aberdeen (370.4), Cheney (371.2), Airway Heights (371.5). 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
Kennewick reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Washington cities
At 367.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kennewick ranks 33 of 164 — above 131 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +99.6% 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 268.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 367.0 in 2024 (+36.5%). The highest observed value was 480.8 in 2022 and the lowest 268.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Kennewick'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.
Kennewick's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 28.5 Census sq mi, Kennewick logged 103.9 property and 11 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kennewick's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 3,275 offenses; mix index 4,484).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (28.5 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
-15.6%
434.6 → 367/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.1%
3684.6 → 3461/100K
Property offenses lead Kennewick's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,961
3461
1711
Larceny-Theft
2,084
2435.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
574
670.9
-
Burglary
303
354.2
-
Arson
3
3.5
-
Violent Crime
314
367
352
Aggravated Assault
195
227.9
-
Robbery
72
84.2
-
Rape
44
51.4
-
Murder
3
3.5
-
Kennewick Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Kennewick 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
Kennewick Police Department
Reporting agency for Kennewick NIBRS-participating
Kennewick Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kennewick's 3,275 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 Kennewick in population. Their populations run from 73,573 to 96,646, against 85,553 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Kennewick reported 314 violent crimes and 2,961 property crimes, for a total of 3,275 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Kennewick?
From 2023 to 2024, Kennewick's violent crime rate decreased by 15.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.1%.
What is the most common crime in Kennewick?
The most common crime type in Kennewick is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.6% of all reported crimes (2,084 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Kennewick'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 Kennewick, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.