County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Kitsap County, WA
At 275,611 residents, Kitsap County is a very large county in Washington. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Kitsap County, WA reported 177 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kitsap County, WA agencies reported 489 violent and 2,428 property offenses. That equals about 177 violent and 881 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
489 violent offenses
177/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Kitsap County, WA
Position in the state cohort
Kitsap County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Washington counties
At 177.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kitsap County ranks 4 of 35 — above 31 of the 34 other Washington counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +178.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 129.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 177.4 in 2024 (+37.4%). The highest observed value was 215.9 in 2022 and the lowest 129.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 69.5% of reported property offenses in Kitsap County, against a cohort median of 58.7%. The remainder is burglary (449) and motor vehicle theft (292). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 16.8% of the 2,917 Part I offenses reported in Kitsap County for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Washington counties — a gap of 3.3 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.
On a very 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 · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
2,428
Burglary
449
Larceny-Theft
1,687
Motor Vehicle Theft
292
Arson
19
Violent Crime
489
Murder
4
Rape
98
Robbery
38
Aggravated Assault
349
Reporting Agency
Kitsap County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Kitsap County's crime figures on this page originate from Kitsap 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 Kitsap County in population. Their populations run from 129,523 to 294,793, against 275,611 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.