Milton, WA has a D safety grade (38/100) with a violent crime rate of 391 per 100,000, 11% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Milton is a small municipal reporter (8,690 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with WA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Milton, WA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 11% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Milton, WA shows violent crime at 391.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,623.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 11% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D 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 Milton's 391.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Port Orchard (388.2), Moses Lake (394.4), Chehalis (381.4), Othello (378.2). 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 391.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Milton ranks 25 of 164 — above 139 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +112.8% 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 273.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 391.3 in 2024 (+43.1%). The highest observed value was 438.9 in 2022 and the lowest 273.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 61.4% of reported property offenses in Milton, against a cohort median of 73.6%. The remainder is burglary (25) and motor vehicle theft (63). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 13.0% of the 262 Part I offenses reported in Milton for 2024, against a median of 9.2% across comparable Washington cities — a gap of 3.7 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 Milton'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 2.8 Census sq mi, Milton logged 82 property and 12.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Milton leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,615.
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Milton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 228 | 2623.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 140 | 1611 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 63 | 725 |
| Burglary | 25 | 287.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 34 | 391.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 24 | 276.2 |
| Robbery | 6 | 69 |
| Rape | 3 | 34.5 |
| Murder | 1 | 11.5 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,413 | 273.4 | 2983.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,325 | 288.3 | 3339.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,113 | 438.9 | 3961.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,802 | 306.7 | 4249 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,690 | 391.3 | 2623.7 |
Milton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Milton's 262 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 Milton in population. Their populations run from 8,540 to 8,989, against 8,690 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Milton sits at 391.3/100K violent (grade D); the Washington cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Milton reported 34 violent crimes and 228 property crimes, for a total of 262 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Milton's violent crime rate increased by 27.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 38.3%.
The most common crime type in Milton is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.4% of all reported crimes (140 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Milton is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Milton's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Milton, 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. Milton is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (8,690 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.