Shoreline, WA has a C safety grade (57/100) with a violent crime rate of 212 per 100,000, 40% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Shoreline, WA Crime Rate & Safety
At 62,234 residents, Shoreline is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against WA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Shoreline, WA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 40% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Shoreline, WA shows violent crime at 212.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,532.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 40% 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.
C safety grade
212.1/100K violent
2532.4/100K property
-40% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Shoreline, WA
Comparable rate records
Shoreline's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Washington cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Shoreline's 212.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Edgewood (214.0), Eatonville (215.2), Longview (216.1), Darrington (204.8). 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 59.8% of reported property offenses in Shoreline, against a cohort median of 73.6%. The remainder is burglary (303) and motor vehicle theft (331). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Shoreline sits mid-pack among comparable Washington cities
At 212.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Shoreline ranks 72 of 164 — above 92 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +15.3% 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 210.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 212.1 in 2024 (+0.7%). The highest observed value was 281.7 in 2022 and the lowest 179.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Shoreline'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Shoreline's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.6 Census sq mi, Shoreline logged 135.5 property and 11.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Shoreline leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,754.
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+18.1%
179.6 → 212.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-8.6%
2771.5 → 2532.4/100K
Property offenses lead Shoreline's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,576
2532.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
942
1513.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
331
531.9
-
Burglary
303
486.9
-
Arson
6
9.6
-
Violent Crime
132
212.1
352
Robbery
56
90
-
Aggravated Assault
51
81.9
-
Rape
24
38.6
-
Murder
1
1.6
-
Shoreline Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Shoreline 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
Shoreline Police Department
Reporting agency for Shoreline NIBRS-participating
Shoreline Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Shoreline's 1,708 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 Shoreline in population. Their populations run from 50,318 to 73,573, against 62,234 here. Or use our
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Shoreline at 212.1/100K violent and 2,532.4/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Shoreline reported 132 violent crimes and 1,576 property crimes, for a total of 1,708 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Shoreline?
From 2023 to 2024, Shoreline's violent crime rate increased by 18.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.6%.
What is the most common crime in Shoreline?
The most common crime type in Shoreline is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.2% of all reported crimes (942 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Shoreline's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Shoreline, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.