Crime in Shelton, Washington
Major crime in Shelton is 45% above the U.S. rate per resident: 50% higher for persons crimes and 44% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.7% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 3.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Shelton 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 Shelton
The middle half of Shelton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 70 and 162; the typical (median) resident's is 129.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10049.1%
- 100–20031.9%
- 200–40012.9%
- 400+6.1%
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 8.7% 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.
Shelton against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
301 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Shelton; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Shelton 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, Olympia (15 mi), is 28% above Shelton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Shelton
What are the most common crimes in Shelton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 98 a year), shoplifting (about 38 a year) and aggravated assault (about 32 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 3.3 times 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. Shelton's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Shelton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 18.8% 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: 10,782. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Shelton, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/shelton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Olympia15 mi186
- Tumwater17 mi102
- Tanglewilde19 mi160
- Lacey19 mi96
- Key Center19 mi93
- DuPont23 mi47
- Wauna24 mi61
- Rosedale24 mi51