CrimeMetric

Crime in Fife, Washington

Major crime in Fife is 2.7 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.8 times for persons crimes and 2.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.4% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
267
2.7 times the U.S. rate
2.2 times the Washington rate
down 9.4% in a year
Persons crimes
283
2.8 times the U.S. rate
3.3 times the Washington rate
down 5.6% in a year
Property crimes
263
2.6 times the U.S. rate
2.0 times the Washington rate
down 10.3% in a year
Social disorder
258
2.6 times the U.S. rate
3.2 times the Washington rate
down 7.2% 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

Robbery and motor vehicle theft stand out most, at about 4.2 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Fife 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 Fife

The middle half of Fife residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 44 and 206; the typical (median) resident's is 106. The citywide figure (267) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Fife, 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.
  • 0–5042.2%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20032.7%
  • 200–40010.1%
  • 400+15.0%

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 weekdays, day and night

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm276
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am271
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm242
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am256
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.4% in a year; across Washington it fell 10.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.4%WA -10.1%-12.7%WA -12.2%
Persons crimes-5.6%WA -5.9%-5.0%WA -1.8%
Property crimes-10.3%WA -10.6%-14.5%WA -13.7%
Social disorder-7.2%WA -9.4%-11.2%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

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

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

Fife, WA9,960267
Havre, MT9,960226
Kennett, MO9,952182
Baxter, MN9,944101
Astoria, OR9,960101
Jesup, GA9,95085

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

Nearby places

Fife 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, Waller (2 mi), is 73% below Fife's rate.

Fife267
Tacoma5 mi249
Puyallup5 mi179
Midland5 mi146
Milton2 mi110
Edgewood3 mi84
Waller2 mi73
Summit4 mi56

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

Questions about crime in Fife

What are the most common crimes in Fife?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 113 a year), theft from vehicle (about 98 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 66 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 4.2 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. Fife's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Fife's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 44.3% 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: 9,960. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100