Crime in Lacey, Washington
Major crime in Lacey is about the U.S. rate per resident: 30% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.9% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 41% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lacey 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 Lacey
The middle half of Lacey residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 102; the typical (median) resident's is 62. The citywide figure (96) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5039.8%
- 50–10034.2%
- 100–20018.5%
- 200–4003.9%
- 400+3.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 15.9% 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.
Lacey against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
252 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lacey; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lacey has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Tanglewilde (2 mi), is 1.7 times Lacey's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lacey
What are the most common crimes in Lacey?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 271 a year), shoplifting (about 244 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 111 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 41% 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. Lacey's figures add up its 30 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lacey has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 56.7% 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: 54,448. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lacey, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/lacey
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Tanglewilde2 mi160
- Olympia5 mi186
- Tumwater6 mi102
- DuPont8 mi47
- Yelm11 mi87
- Steilacoom14 mi43
- Lakewood16 mi160
- University Place18 mi86