Crime in Spokane, Washington
Major crime in Spokane is 2.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.8 times for persons crimes and 3.0 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 2.9% 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 3.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Spokane 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 Spokane
The middle half of Spokane residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 111 and 280; the typical (median) resident's is 182. The citywide figure (279) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–503.8%
- 50–10015.8%
- 100–20037.2%
- 200–40029.2%
- 400+13.9%
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 2.9% 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.
Spokane against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
8 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Spokane; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Spokane has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Town and Country (3 mi), is 26% below Spokane's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Spokane
What are the most common crimes in Spokane?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 3,284 a year), shoplifting (about 2,317 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 2,275 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 3.9 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. Spokane's figures add up its 183 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Spokane has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 70.6% 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: 231,993. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Spokane, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/spokane
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Town and Country3 mi207
- Country Homes5 mi98
- Fairwood6 mi81
- Mead8 mi84
- Airway Heights8 mi208
- Spokane Valley8 mi184
- Cheney15 mi106
- Liberty Lake15 mi65