County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Chelan County, WA
At 79,074 residents, Chelan County is a large county in Washington. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Chelan County, WA reported 46 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chelan County, WA agencies reported 36 violent and 240 property offenses. That equals about 46 violent and 304 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
36 violent offenses
46/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Chelan County, WA
Position in the state cohort
Chelan County sits mid-pack among comparable Washington counties
At 45.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chelan County ranks 26 of 35 — above 9 of the 34 other Washington counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -29.6% against the cohort median of 64.6. Counties 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 53.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 45.5 in 2024 (-14.3%). The highest observed value was 53.1 in 2020 and the lowest 31.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
240
Burglary
74
Larceny-Theft
138
Motor Vehicle Theft
28
Arson
0
Violent Crime
36
Murder
0
Rape
10
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
24
Reporting Agency
Chelan County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Chelan County's crime figures on this page originate from Chelan County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Washington
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Washington counties closest to Chelan County in population. Their populations run from 65,726 to 86,857, against 79,074 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.