Kirkland, WA has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 61 per 100,000, 83% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Kirkland, WA Crime Rate & Safety
At 90,687 residents, Kirkland 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.
Kirkland, WA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 83% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kirkland, WA shows violent crime at 60.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,012.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 83% 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.
A safety grade
60.6/100K violent
2012.4/100K property
-83% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Kirkland, WA
Comparable rate records
Kirkland's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Washington cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Kirkland's 60.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lake Forest Park (62.4), Enumclaw (62.9), La Center (63.7), Kenmore (64.6). 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 120.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 60.6 in 2024 (-49.7%). The highest observed value was 120.7 in 2020 and the lowest 60.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Kirkland reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Washington cities
At 60.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kirkland ranks 136 of 164 — above 28 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -67.5% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 2.9% of the 1,880 Part I offenses reported in Kirkland for 2024, against a median of 9.3% across comparable Washington cities — a gap of 6.4 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.
Property counts dominate Kirkland'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.
Kirkland's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 17.8 Census sq mi, Kirkland logged 102.5 property and 3.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kirkland's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 1,880 offenses; mix index 5,805).
Violent offenses are only 3% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.8 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
-48.5%
117.6 → 60.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-3.2%
2078.1 → 2012.4/100K
Property offenses lead Kirkland's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs WA
Property Crime
1,825
2012.4
2498.3
Larceny-Theft
1,400
1543.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
223
245.9
-
Burglary
202
222.7
-
Arson
2
2.2
-
Violent Crime
55
60.6
329.3
Aggravated Assault
32
35.3
-
Rape
13
14.3
-
Robbery
9
9.9
-
Murder
1
1.1
-
Kirkland Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Kirkland property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Kirkland Police Department
Reporting agency for Kirkland NIBRS-participating
Kirkland Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kirkland's 1,880 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 Kirkland in population. Their populations run from 80,838 to 103,762, against 90,687 here. Or use our
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Kirkland at 60.6/100K violent and 2,012.4/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Kirkland reported 55 violent crimes and 1,825 property crimes, for a total of 1,880 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Kirkland?
From 2023 to 2024, Kirkland's violent crime rate decreased by 48.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.2%.
What is the most common crime in Kirkland?
The most common crime type in Kirkland is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.5% of all reported crimes (1,400 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Kirkland'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 Kirkland, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.