Crime in Tacoma, Washington
Major crime in Tacoma is 2.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.6 times for persons crimes and 2.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.8% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 4.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Tacoma 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 Tacoma
The middle half of Tacoma residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 100 and 268; the typical (median) resident's is 152. The citywide figure (249) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–503.5%
- 50–10022.2%
- 100–20038.1%
- 200–40023.9%
- 400+12.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.8% 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.
Tacoma against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
15 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Tacoma; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Tacoma has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fircrest (3 mi), is 69% below Tacoma's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Tacoma
What are the most common crimes in Tacoma?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 2,898 a year), theft from vehicle (about 1,820 a year) and burglary (about 1,640 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 4.3 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. Tacoma's figures add up its 152 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Tacoma's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 85.0% 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: 233,062. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Tacoma, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/tacoma
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100