Lynnwood, WA has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 264 per 100,000, 25% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Lynnwood (45,807 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then WA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Lynnwood, WA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 25% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lynnwood, WA shows violent crime at 264.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 6,064.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lynnwood's 264.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Everett (265.1), Edmonds (260.2), Napavine (269.3), Centralia (269.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 264.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lynnwood ranks 51 of 164 — above 113 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +43.6% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 4.2% of the 2,899 Part I offenses reported in Lynnwood for 2024, against a median of 9.3% across comparable Washington cities — a gap of 5.1 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 82.2% of reported property offenses in Lynnwood, against a cohort median of 73.4%. The remainder is burglary (231) and motor vehicle theft (263). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 240.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 264.2 in 2024 (+9.9%). The highest observed value was 332.1 in 2022 and the lowest 240.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lynnwood'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.
Across 7.9 Census sq mi, Lynnwood logged 352.7 property and 15.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lynnwood's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 2,899 offenses; mix index 6,360).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lynnwood offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.9 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 | 2,778 | 6064.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 2,284 | 4986.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 263 | 574.1 |
| Burglary | 231 | 504.3 |
| Arson | 5 | 10.9 |
| Violent Crime | 121 | 264.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 56 | 122.3 |
| Robbery | 49 | 107 |
| Rape | 12 | 26.2 |
| Murder | 4 | 8.7 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 39,517 | 240.4 | 4231.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 39,370 | 312.4 | 4937.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 42,764 | 332.1 | 5932.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 45,754 | 273.2 | 5756.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 45,807 | 264.2 | 6064.6 |
Lynnwood Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lynnwood's 2,899 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 Lynnwood in population. Their populations run from 37,944 to 55,775, against 45,807 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lynnwood sits at 264.2/100K violent (grade C); the Washington cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lynnwood at 264.2/100K violent and 6,064.6/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
264.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
6,064.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-3.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Lynnwood reported 121 violent crimes and 2,778 property crimes, for a total of 2,899 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lynnwood's violent crime rate decreased by 3.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.3%.
The most common crime type in Lynnwood is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.8% of all reported crimes (2,284 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lynnwood 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Lynnwood's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lynnwood, 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. Lynnwood is scored in the mid-size municipal band (45,807 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.