Crime in Walla Walla, Washington
Major crime in Walla Walla is 8% above the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 9% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.7% 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 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Walla Walla 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 Walla Walla
The middle half of Walla Walla residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 142; the typical (median) resident's is 82. The citywide figure (108) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5035.3%
- 50–10020.3%
- 100–20032.1%
- 200–4008.8%
- 400+3.6%
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 15.7% 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.
Walla Walla against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
271 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Walla Walla; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Walla Walla has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, College Place (3 mi), is 40% below Walla Walla's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Walla Walla
What are the most common crimes in Walla Walla?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 256 a year), shoplifting (about 85 a year) and burglary (about 69 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 2.1 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. Walla Walla's figures add up its 26 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Walla Walla has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 18.5% 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: 31,968. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Walla Walla, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/walla-walla
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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