Port Angeles, WA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 61% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Port Angeles, WA shows violent crime at 566.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,483.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 61% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
566.2/100K violent
2483.5/100K property
+61% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Port Angeles, WA
Position in the state cohort
Port Angeles reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Washington cities
At 566.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Port Angeles ranks 9 of 164 — above 155 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +207.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
Port Angeles's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Washington cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Port Angeles's 566.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Olympia (564.8), Vancouver (582.3), Federal Way (545.4), Yakima (544.3). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 18.6% of the 614 Part I offenses reported in Port Angeles for 2024, against a median of 9.2% across comparable Washington cities — a gap of 9.3 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 687.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 566.2 in 2024 (-17.6%). The highest observed value was 687.5 in 2020 and the lowest 560.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Port Angeles'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.
Port Angeles's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.7 Census sq mi, Port Angeles logged 46.7 property and 10.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Port Angeles leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,772.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.7 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
-9.3%
2737.7 → 2483.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-1.1%
572.4 → 566.2/100K
Property offenses lead Port Angeles's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
500
2483.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
350
1738.4
-
Burglary
103
511.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
47
233.4
-
Arson
1
5
-
Violent Crime
114
566.2
352
Aggravated Assault
79
392.4
-
Rape
23
114.2
-
Robbery
10
49.7
-
Murder
2
9.9
-
Port Angeles Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Port Angeles 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
Port Angeles Police Department
Reporting agency for Port Angeles NIBRS-participating
Port Angeles Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Port Angeles's 614 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 Port Angeles in population. Their populations run from 18,806 to 21,216, against 20,133 here. Or use our
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Port Angeles at 566.2/100K violent and 2,483.5/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Port Angeles reported 114 violent crimes and 500 property crimes, for a total of 614 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Port Angeles?
From 2023 to 2024, Port Angeles's violent crime rate decreased by 1.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.3%.
What is the most common crime in Port Angeles?
The most common crime type in Port Angeles is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.0% of all reported crimes (350 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Port Angeles 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 Port Angeles, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.