Crime in Kent, Washington
Major crime in Kent is 15% above the U.S. rate per resident: 12% lower for persons crimes and 21% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 22.8% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Kent 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 Kent
The middle half of Kent residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 51 and 107; the typical (median) resident's is 67. The citywide figure (115) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5023.2%
- 50–10049.7%
- 100–20016.9%
- 200–4008.7%
- 400+1.5%
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 22.8% 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.
Kent against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
125 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Kent; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Kent has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lakeland North (4 mi), is 54% below Kent's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Kent
What are the most common crimes in Kent?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 982 a year), theft from vehicle (about 491 a year) and shoplifting (about 427 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 1.7 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. Kent's figures add up its 88 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Kent has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 43.1% 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: 140,413. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Kent, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/kent
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Lakeland North4 mi53
- Des Moines5 mi97
- Covington5 mi99
- Fairwood5 mi71
- SeaTac6 mi105
- Auburn6 mi145
- Lake Morton-Berrydale6 mi39
- Renton7 mi140