McCleary, WA has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 294 per 100,000, 17% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
McCleary's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,043). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to WA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
McCleary, WA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 17% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, McCleary, WA shows violent crime at 293.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 244.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 54.5% of the 11 Part I offenses reported in McCleary for 2024, against a median of 9.2% across comparable Washington cities — a gap of 45.3 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.
Small-count caution
McCleary reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,043. 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 McCleary's 293.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Des Moines (296.6), Walla Walla (284.3), Sunnyside (277.4), Yelm (277.3). 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 293.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, McCleary ranks 44 of 164 — above 120 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +59.7% 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 225.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 293.7 in 2024 (+30.5%). The highest observed value was 293.7 in 2024 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
McCleary's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,043. 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 2.1 Census sq mi, McCleary logged 2.4 property and 2.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
McCleary leans on larceny-theft at 36% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,058.
Violent offenses are 55% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
McCleary offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 6 | 293.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 195.8 |
| Rape | 2 | 97.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 5 | 244.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 195.8 |
| Burglary | 1 | 48.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,777 | 225.1 | 337.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,849 | 0 | 703.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,051 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,052 | 0 | 48.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,043 | 293.7 | 244.7 |
McCleary Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind McCleary's 11 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 McCleary in population. Their populations run from 1,774 to 2,248, against 2,043 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, McCleary reported 6 violent crimes and 5 property crimes, for a total of 11 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, McCleary's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate increased by 402.5%.
The most common crime type in McCleary is larceny-theft, accounting for 36.4% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: McCleary'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 McCleary's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 McCleary, 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. McCleary is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,043 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.