Kettle Falls, WA has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 120 per 100,000, 66% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Kettle Falls's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,663). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to WA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Kettle Falls, WA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 66% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kettle Falls, WA shows violent crime at 120.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,082.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 66% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Kettle Falls reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,663. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Kettle Falls's 120.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lake Stevens (117.1), Woodland (123.5), Gold Bar (124.4), Goldendale (114.9). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 243.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 120.3 in 2024 (-50.7%). The highest observed value was 420.4 in 2022 and the lowest 120.1 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 120.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kettle Falls ranks 107 of 164 — above 57 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -35.6% 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 Kettle Falls'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.
Based on 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,663. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 1.1 Census sq mi, Kettle Falls logged 16.2 property and 1.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kettle Falls's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 20 offenses; mix index 4,900).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Kettle Falls offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 18 | 1082.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 13 | 781.7 |
| Burglary | 5 | 300.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 2 | 120.3 |
| Robbery | 1 | 60.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 60.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,641 | 243.8 | 1706.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,647 | 242.9 | 1942.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,665 | 420.4 | 1561.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,665 | 120.1 | 1441.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,663 | 120.3 | 1082.4 |
Kettle Falls Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kettle Falls's 20 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Washington cities closest to Kettle Falls in population. Their populations run from 1,301 to 1,936, against 1,663 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Kettle Falls reported 2 violent crimes and 18 property crimes, for a total of 20 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kettle Falls's violent crime rate increased by 0.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 24.9%.
The most common crime type in Kettle Falls is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.0% of all reported crimes (13 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Kettle Falls's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Kettle Falls's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kettle Falls, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Kettle Falls is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (1,663 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.