Crime in Prairie Heights, Washington
Major crime in Prairie Heights is 52% below the U.S. rate per resident: 46% lower for persons crimes and 54% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.7% 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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Every crime type in Prairie Heights is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Prairie Heights for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Prairie Heights
Prairie Heights is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 47; the middle half of residents live where it is between 47 and 48.
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- 100–2000.0%
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Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.7% 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.
Prairie Heights against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,427 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Prairie Heights; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Prairie Heights has a higher major-crime index than 0 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Bonney Lake (3 mi), is 1.5 times Prairie Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Prairie Heights
What are the most common crimes in Prairie Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 18 a year), aggravated assault (about 7 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 29% below 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. Prairie Heights's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Prairie Heights'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: 5,215. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Prairie Heights, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/prairie-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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