Crime in Poulsbo, Washington
Major crime in Poulsbo is 14% below the U.S. rate per resident: 51% lower for persons crimes and 5% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% 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.
Check an address in Poulsbo
Shoplifting, drugs and alcohol and burglary stand out most, at about 22% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Poulsbo 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 Poulsbo
The middle half of Poulsbo residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 129; the typical (median) resident's is 55. The citywide figure (87) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5048.9%
- 50–10016.9%
- 100–20017.1%
- 200–40017.1%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.2% 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.
Poulsbo against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
857 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Poulsbo; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Poulsbo 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, Bangor Base (5 mi), is 63% below Poulsbo's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Poulsbo
What are the most common crimes in Poulsbo?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 51 a year), shoplifting (about 45 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 27 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 22% 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. Poulsbo's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Poulsbo's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% 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: 11,590. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Poulsbo, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/poulsbo
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Bangor Base5 mi32
- Indianola5 mi57
- Silverdale6 mi131
- Bainbridge Island8 mi43
- Tracyton9 mi83
- Bremerton12 mi119
- Manchester14 mi41
- Esperance14 mi40