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Washington: Property crime rate

This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of total reported incidences of property crime by the population. We multiply the result by 10,000. Property crime includes burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. In counties with relatively few people, a small change in the number of property crimes reported may have a significant effect on rates from year to year.

In Washington ...

  • the rate in 2013 was 247 per 10,000 population, compared to 263 in the U.S..
 

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·         Does your county have a high or low total crime rate?

·         Is this rate decreasing over time?

 

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·         “Crime: Violent crime rate” – How does the change in the property crime rate compare to the change in the violent crime rate?

 

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·         The Federal Bureau of Investigation provides crime data for specific offenses.  Be aware, however, that data are reported by type of law enforcement agency (city, county, university, other) rather than as county totals.  See http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm.

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Note: Number of reported incidences of violent crimes (murders and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) per 10,000 population. Limitation of the Data: The FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR) is a voluntary program, whereby participating law enforcement agencies report incidents of seven selected serious crimes. Local agencies may classify reported crimes differently, causing comparability problems at the community level. This is especially true for violent crime in smaller communities, where the small number of offenses may have a significant effect on crime rates from year to year. 2001 estimates of total population have been updated per the Census Bureau's updates. NA = not available. For more detailed notes, please visit the data sources.

Source: 2003-2013: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports, (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm);
Source: 1991-2002: National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data, (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD;); 1990-2002: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports, (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm); and 2000-2002: University of Virginia Library, Geostats Center, Uniform Crime Reports County Data, (http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/crime/);
DATE LAST UPDATED: September 2, 2015.

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