Lake Stevens, WA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 67% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lake Stevens, WA shows violent crime at 117.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 648.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 67% 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
117.1/100K violent
648.8/100K property
-67% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lake Stevens, WA
Comparable rate records
Lake Stevens's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Washington cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lake Stevens's 117.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Goldendale (114.9), White Salmon (114.9), Kettle Falls (120.3), Oak Harbor (113.4). 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 179.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 117.1 in 2024 (-34.7%). The highest observed value was 179.2 in 2020 and the lowest 114.3 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
Lake Stevens sits mid-pack among comparable Washington cities
At 117.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lake Stevens ranks 108 of 164 — above 56 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -37.3% 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
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 15.3% of the 314 Part I offenses reported in Lake Stevens for 2024, against a median of 9.2% across comparable Washington cities — a gap of 6.0 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 Lake Stevens'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.
Lake Stevens's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.2 Census sq mi, Lake Stevens logged 26.2 property and 4.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lake Stevens's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 314 offenses; mix index 4,633).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.2 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
-17.4%
785.5 → 648.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+2.4%
114.3 → 117.1/100K
Property offenses lead Lake Stevens's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs WA
Property Crime
266
648.8
2498.3
Larceny-Theft
207
504.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
37
90.2
-
Burglary
22
53.7
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
48
117.1
329.3
Aggravated Assault
27
65.9
-
Rape
14
34.1
-
Robbery
7
17.1
-
Murder
0
0
-
Lake Stevens Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Lake Stevens 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
Lake Stevens Police Department
Reporting agency for Lake Stevens NIBRS-participating
Lake Stevens Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lake Stevens's 314 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 Lake Stevens in population. Their populations run from 35,099 to 46,079, against 41,000 here. Or use our
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Lake Stevens at 117.1/100K violent and 648.8/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Lake Stevens reported 48 violent crimes and 266 property crimes, for a total of 314 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Lake Stevens?
From 2023 to 2024, Lake Stevens's violent crime rate increased by 2.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.4%.
What is the most common crime in Lake Stevens?
The most common crime type in Lake Stevens is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.9% of all reported crimes (207 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lake Stevens 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 Lake Stevens, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.