County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
At 256,728 residents, Yakima 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).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Yakima County, WA reported 63 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Yakima County, WA agencies reported 162 violent and 1,028 property offenses. That equals about 63 violent and 400 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 50.7% of reported property offenses in Yakima County, against a cohort median of 58.9%. The remainder is burglary (286) and motor vehicle theft (221). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 63.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Yakima County ranks 19 of 35 — above 16 of the 34 other Washington counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -2.4% 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 65.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 63.1 in 2024 (-3.6%). The highest observed value was 76.3 in 2023 and the lowest 44.4 in 2021. 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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 1,028 |
| Burglary | 286 |
| Larceny-Theft | 521 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 221 |
| Arson | 2 |
| Violent Crime | 162 |
| Murder | 10 |
| Rape | 19 |
| Robbery | 13 |
| Aggravated Assault | 120 |
Yakima County's crime figures on this page originate from Yakima 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Washington counties closest to Yakima County in population. Their populations run from 129,523 to 294,793, against 256,728 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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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