Tukwila, WA has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 927 per 100,000, 163% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Tukwila (20,933 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then WA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Tukwila, WA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 163% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tukwila, WA shows violent crime at 926.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 15,243.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 163% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 926.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tukwila ranks 4 of 164 — above 160 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +404.0% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Tukwila's 926.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fife (1017.7), Tacoma (1063.0), Seattle (775.1), Spokane (674.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 737.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 926.8 in 2024 (+25.7%). The highest observed value was 926.8 in 2024 and the lowest 737.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 5.7% of the 3,385 Part I offenses reported in Tukwila for 2024, against a median of 9.3% across comparable Washington cities — a gap of 3.6 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 Tukwila'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.
Across 9.2 Census sq mi, Tukwila logged 347.4 property and 21.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Tukwila's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 3,385 offenses; mix index 5,453).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Tukwila offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.2 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 | 3,191 | 15243.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 2,418 | 11551.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 597 | 2852 |
| Burglary | 176 | 840.8 |
| Arson | 7 | 33.4 |
| Violent Crime | 194 | 926.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 91 | 434.7 |
| Robbery | 73 | 348.7 |
| Rape | 27 | 129 |
| Murder | 3 | 14.3 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 20,483 | 737.2 | 14480.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 20,369 | 810.1 | 16412.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,473 | 773.1 | 20011.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,191 | 840 | 17965.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 20,933 | 926.8 | 15243.9 |
Tukwila Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Tukwila's 3,385 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 Tukwila in population. Their populations run from 19,202 to 21,610, against 20,933 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Tukwila sits at 926.8/100K violent (grade F); the Washington cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Tukwila at 926.8/100K violent and 15,243.9/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
926.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
15,243.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Tukwila reported 194 violent crimes and 3,191 property crimes, for a total of 3,385 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Tukwila's violent crime rate increased by 10.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.1%.
The most common crime type in Tukwila is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.4% of all reported crimes (2,418 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Tukwila 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Tukwila's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Tukwila, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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