County crime profile · 2024 · small-population county · violent-led

Garfield County, WA

Garfield County is a small-population county in Washington. Reported FBI UCR offense counts are shown first; per-100,000 rates require a matched Census denominator.

Data updated 2026-08-24

44
Violent offenses
30
Property offenses
74
Total · 2024

Garfield County, WA reported 1925 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Garfield County, WA agencies reported 44 violent and 30 property offenses. That equals about 1925 violent and 1312 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
  • 44 violent offenses
  • 1925/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Garfield County, WA

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 743.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1924.8 in 2024 (+158.8%). The highest observed value was 1924.8 in 2024 and the lowest 743.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 59.5% of the 74 Part I offenses reported in Garfield County for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Washington counties — a gap of 46.0 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.

Position in the state cohort

Garfield County reported the highest violent-crime rate among comparable Washington counties

At 1924.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Garfield County ranks 1 of 35 — above 34 of the 34 other Washington counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +2917.4% against the cohort median of 63.8. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.

Property-offense composition

Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 73.3% of reported property offenses in Garfield County, against a cohort median of 58.7%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

On a small-population county row, small denominators make rates swing on a handful of incidents. Figures are what agencies reported, not a neighbourhood safety grade. Census-matched rates appear only when the join exists.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · violent-led · small-population county

Category Count
Violent Crime 44
Murder 0
Rape 0
Robbery 0
Aggravated Assault 44
Property Crime 30
Burglary 7
Larceny-Theft 22
Motor Vehicle Theft 1
Arson 0

Reporting Agency

Garfield County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Garfield County's crime figures on this page originate from Garfield 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 Garfield County in population. Their populations run from 3,952 to 17,788, against 2,286 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

ZIP Codes in Garfield County

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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.

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