Crime in Ephrata, Washington
Major crime in Ephrata is 31% above the U.S. rate per resident: 48% lower for persons crimes and 49% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 2.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Ephrata 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
Neighborhoods in Ephrata
Ephrata is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 103; the middle half of residents live where it is between 66 and 193.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10027.3%
- 100–20051.6%
- 200–40021.1%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.3% 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.
Ephrata against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
338 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ephrata; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Ephrata has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Moses Lake North (14 mi), is 52% below Ephrata's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Ephrata
What are the most common crimes in Ephrata?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 69 a year), shoplifting (about 67 a year) and burglary (about 37 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 2.4 times 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. Ephrata's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Ephrata 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: 9,573. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ephrata, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/ephrata
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Moses Lake North14 mi63
- Quincy16 mi72
- Moses Lake18 mi123
- East Wenatchee35 mi80
- Wenatchee38 mi112
- Othello39 mi99
- Sunnyslope40 mi44
- Chelan42 mi38