County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Spokane County, WA
At 539,339 residents, Spokane 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).
Spokane County, WA reported 43 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Spokane County, WA agencies reported 230 violent and 2,272 property offenses. That equals about 43 violent and 421 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
230 violent offenses
43/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Spokane County, WA
Position in the state cohort
Spokane County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Washington counties
At 42.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Spokane County ranks 30 of 35 — above 5 of the 34 other Washington counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -34.0% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 72.0% of reported property offenses in Spokane County, against a cohort median of 58.7%. The remainder is burglary (466) and motor vehicle theft (170). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 37.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 42.6 in 2024 (+13.9%). The highest observed value was 42.6 in 2024 and the lowest 35.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.2% of the 2,502 Part I offenses reported in Spokane County for 2024, against a median of 13.7% across comparable Washington counties — a gap of 4.5 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.
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
2,272
Burglary
466
Larceny-Theft
1,636
Motor Vehicle Theft
170
Arson
14
Violent Crime
230
Murder
4
Rape
38
Robbery
21
Aggravated Assault
167
Reporting Agency
Spokane County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Spokane County's crime figures on this page originate from Spokane 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 Spokane County in population. Their populations run from 256,728 to 827,957, against 539,339 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.