CrimeMetric

Crime in Chelan, Washington

Major crime in Chelan is 62% below the U.S. rate per resident: 56% lower for persons crimes and 63% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 31.7% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
38
62% below the U.S. rate
69% below the Washington rate
down 31.7% in a year
Persons crimes
44
56% below the U.S. rate
49% below the Washington rate
down 14.2% in a year
Property crimes
37
63% below the U.S. rate
71% below the Washington rate
down 35.1% in a year
Social disorder
32
68% below the U.S. rate
60% below the Washington rate
down 27.6% in a year

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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Crime by type

Every crime type in Chelan is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Chelan for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Chelan

The middle half of Chelan residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 45; the typical (median) resident's is 27. The citywide figure (38) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Chelan, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5076.0%
  • 50–10024.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm46
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am30
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm40
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am33
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 31.7% in a year; across Washington it fell 10.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-31.7%WA -10.1%-11.4%WA -12.2%
Persons crimes-14.2%WA -5.9%+3.2%WA -1.8%
Property crimes-35.1%WA -10.6%-15.3%WA -13.7%
Social disorder-27.6%WA -9.4%-2.3%WA -6.5%

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.

Similar-size places

Chelan against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,670 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Chelan; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Chelan has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Sunnyslope (27 mi), is 14% above Chelan's rate.

Omak46 mi138
Ephrata42 mi131
Wenatchee32 mi112
Okanogan43 mi81
Quincy42 mi72
Sunnyslope27 mi44
Chelan38

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Chelan

What are the most common crimes in Chelan?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 10 a year), other larceny (about 8 a year) and burglary (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: about 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. Chelan's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Chelan has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% 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: 5,073. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Chelan, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/chelan

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100