West Richland, WA has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 146 per 100,000, 59% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
West Richland (19,202 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
West Richland, WA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 59% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Richland, WA shows violent crime at 145.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 541.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 59% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
West Richland reported 28 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 19,202. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West Richland's 145.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Granite Falls (142.0), Moxee (140.5), Normandy Park (139.5), Bellevue (138.6). 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 are 21.2% of the 132 Part I offenses reported in West Richland for 2024, against a median of 9.2% across comparable Washington cities — a gap of 12.0 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 129.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 145.8 in 2024 (+12.7%). The highest observed value was 145.8 in 2024 and the lowest 96.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 145.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Richland ranks 94 of 164 — above 70 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -22.0% against the cohort median of 186.8. 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 West Richland'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.
Based on 28 reported violent incidents in a population of 19,202. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 22.1 Census sq mi, West Richland logged 4.7 property and 1.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
West Richland leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,483.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
West Richland offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 104 | 541.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 71 | 369.8 |
| Burglary | 20 | 104.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 67.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 28 | 145.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 21 | 109.4 |
| Robbery | 3 | 15.6 |
| Murder | 2 | 10.4 |
| Rape | 2 | 10.4 |
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 | 15,464 | 129.3 | 1345.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 15,817 | 113.8 | 891.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 17,557 | 96.8 | 1133.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 18,546 | 113.2 | 765.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,202 | 145.8 | 541.6 |
West Richland Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Richland's 132 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 West Richland in population. Their populations run from 18,123 to 20,845, against 19,202 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
West Richland sits at 145.8/100K violent (grade A); the Washington cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
West Richland at 145.8/100K violent and 541.6/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
145.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
541.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, West Richland reported 28 violent crimes and 104 property crimes, for a total of 132 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, West Richland's violent crime rate increased by 28.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 29.3%.
The most common crime type in West Richland is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.8% of all reported crimes (71 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: West Richland 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 West Richland's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 West Richland, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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