Crime in Bothell, Washington
Major crime in Bothell is 28% below the U.S. rate per resident: 74% lower for persons crimes and 18% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 2.5% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Other larceny stands out most, at 12% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bothell for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Bothell
The middle half of Bothell residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 107; the typical (median) resident's is 40. The citywide figure (72) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5056.5%
- 50–10017.2%
- 100–20023.6%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+2.7%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekdays, day and night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 2.5% in a year; across Washington it fell 10.1%
Change in expected crimes, with Washington as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Bothell against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
365 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bothell; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bothell has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Kenmore (2 mi), is 54% below Bothell's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bothell
What are the most common crimes in Bothell?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 291 a year), theft from vehicle (about 129 a year) and shoplifting (about 91 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 12% above the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Bothell's figures add up its 31 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bothell's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 21.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 52,368. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bothell, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/bothell
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Kenmore2 mi33
- Bothell East2 mi29
- Woodinville3 mi122
- Bothell West3 mi25
- Brier3 mi33
- Lake Forest Park4 mi87
- Alderwood Manor4 mi128
- Maltby5 mi43