County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Pierce County, WA
At 921,130 residents, Pierce 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).
Pierce County, WA reported 130 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pierce County, WA agencies reported 1,193 violent and 5,826 property offenses. That equals about 130 violent and 633 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
1,193 violent offenses
130/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pierce County, WA
Position in the state cohort
Pierce County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Washington counties
At 129.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pierce County ranks 5 of 35 — above 30 of the 34 other Washington counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +103.0% 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.
Share of the state cohort
Pierce County carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 7,019 Part I offenses reported here are 21.5% of the 32,609 reported across all 35 comparable Washington counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 921,130 rather than as a uniform shift.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.0% of the 7,019 Part I offenses reported in Pierce County for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Washington counties — a gap of 3.5 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 119.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 129.5 in 2024 (+8.9%). The highest observed value was 167.3 in 2022 and the lowest 119.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
5,826
Burglary
996
Larceny-Theft
3,539
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,291
Arson
34
Violent Crime
1,193
Murder
13
Rape
103
Robbery
168
Aggravated Assault
909
Reporting Agency
Pierce County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Pierce County's crime figures on this page originate from Pierce 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 Pierce County in population. Their populations run from 275,611 to 827,957, against 921,130 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.