CrimeMetric

Crime in Mead, Washington

Major crime in Mead is 16% below the U.S. rate per resident: 57% lower for persons crimes and 7% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.4% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
84
16% below the U.S. rate
31% below the Washington rate
down 6.4% in a year
Persons crimes
43
57% below the U.S. rate
51% below the Washington rate
about flat in a year
Property crimes
93
7% below the U.S. rate
28% below the Washington rate
down 7.0% in a year
Social disorder
78
22% below the U.S. rate
about the Washington rate
down 1.5% 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

Vandalism stands out most, at 43% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Mead 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 Mead

The middle half of Mead residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 42 and 101; the typical (median) resident's is 54. The citywide figure (84) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Mead, 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.
  • 0–5029.3%
  • 50–10033.0%
  • 100–20024.4%
  • 200–40013.3%
  • 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 weeknights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm83
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am89
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm79
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am81
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 6.4% in a year; across Washington it fell 10.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-6.4%WA -10.1%-12.9%WA -12.2%
Persons crimes+0.1%WA -5.9%+1.4%WA -1.8%
Property crimes-7.0%WA -10.6%-14.3%WA -13.7%
Social disorder-1.5%WA -9.4%-6.2%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

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

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

Dunlap, IN7,172146
Mead, WA7,18484
Lamar, CO7,17255

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

Nearby places

Mead has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fairwood (3 mi), is about Mead's rate.

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

Questions about crime in Mead

What are the most common crimes in Mead?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 37 a year), shoplifting (about 19 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 19 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 43% 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. Mead's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Mead has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 31.8% 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: 7,184. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100