Crime in Yakima, Washington
Major crime in Yakima is 12% above the U.S. rate per resident: 20% higher for persons crimes and 10% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 17.7% 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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Vandalism, murder and burglary stand out most, at about 48% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Yakima 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 Yakima
The middle half of Yakima residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 49 and 120; the typical (median) resident's is 78. The citywide figure (112) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5025.6%
- 50–10038.5%
- 100–20023.9%
- 200–4007.2%
- 400+4.7%
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 17.7% 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.
Yakima against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
189 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Yakima; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Yakima has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Union Gap (4 mi), is 3.7 times Yakima's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Yakima
What are the most common crimes in Yakima?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 590 a year), shoplifting (about 297 a year) and aggravated assault (about 281 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 48% above 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. Yakima's figures add up its 66 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Yakima's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 57.6% 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: 99,763. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Yakima, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/yakima
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Union Gap4 mi411
- Selah4 mi52
- Terrace Heights5 mi86
- Wapato12 mi114
- Zillah18 mi58
- Toppenish19 mi180
- Ellensburg28 mi103
- Sunnyside32 mi126