Mountlake Terrace, WA has a B safety grade (61/100) with a violent crime rate of 195 per 100,000, 45% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Mountlake Terrace, WA Crime Rate & Safety
Mountlake Terrace (21,595 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then WA and national benchmarks.
Mountlake Terrace, WA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 45% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mountlake Terrace, WA shows violent crime at 194.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,190.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 45% 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.
B safety grade
194.5/100K violent
2190.3/100K property
-45% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mountlake Terrace, WA
Comparable rate records
Mountlake Terrace's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Washington cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mountlake Terrace's 194.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Tumwater (195.5), East Wenatchee (191.5), Pacific (190.4), Mount Vernon (190.1). 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 61.1% of reported property offenses in Mountlake Terrace, against a cohort median of 73.6%. The remainder is burglary (66) and motor vehicle theft (118). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 176.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 194.5 in 2024 (+10.1%). The highest observed value was 194.5 in 2024 and the lowest 147.6 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
Mountlake Terrace sits mid-pack among comparable Washington cities
At 194.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mountlake Terrace ranks 77 of 164 — above 87 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +5.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Mountlake Terrace'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.
Mountlake Terrace's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.1 Census sq mi, Mountlake Terrace logged 116.6 property and 10.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mountlake Terrace leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,878.
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+31.8%
147.6 → 194.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-28.5%
3063.4 → 2190.3/100K
Property offenses lead Mountlake Terrace's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
473
2190.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
289
1338.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
118
546.4
-
Burglary
66
305.6
-
Arson
2
9.3
-
Violent Crime
42
194.5
352
Aggravated Assault
30
138.9
-
Robbery
12
55.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Mountlake Terrace Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Mountlake Terrace 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
Mountlake Terrace Police Department
Reporting agency for Mountlake Terrace NIBRS-participating
Mountlake Terrace Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mountlake Terrace's 515 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 Mountlake Terrace in population. Their populations run from 20,133 to 22,839, against 21,595 here. Or use our
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Mountlake Terrace at 194.5/100K violent and 2,190.3/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Mountlake Terrace?
In 2024, Mountlake Terrace reported 42 violent crimes and 473 property crimes, for a total of 515 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mountlake Terrace?
From 2023 to 2024, Mountlake Terrace's violent crime rate increased by 31.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 28.5%.
What is the most common crime in Mountlake Terrace?
The most common crime type in Mountlake Terrace is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.1% of all reported crimes (289 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Mountlake Terrace 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 Mountlake Terrace, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.