Crime in Mountlake Terrace, Washington
Major crime in Mountlake Terrace is 21% below the U.S. rate per resident: 53% lower for persons crimes and 14% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 23.9% 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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Vandalism stands out most, at 47% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Mountlake Terrace 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 Mountlake Terrace
The middle half of Mountlake Terrace residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 56 and 93; the typical (median) resident's is 71.
- 0–5024.6%
- 50–10053.0%
- 100–20022.4%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 23.9% 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.
Mountlake Terrace against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
470 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Mountlake Terrace; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Mountlake Terrace 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, Brier (2 mi), is 59% below Mountlake Terrace's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Mountlake Terrace
What are the most common crimes in Mountlake Terrace?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 144 a year), theft from vehicle (about 63 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 48 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 47% 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. Mountlake Terrace's figures add up its 15 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Mountlake Terrace's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 26.2% 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: 26,290. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Mountlake Terrace, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/mountlake-terrace
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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