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Seattle, WA · the CityFunIndex

Safety in Seattle

Seattle ranks T#120 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 12 — Quiet. That puts it in the 11th percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in Washington.

safety score
12
Quiet
National rank
T#120 of 134
In Washington
#2 of 2
Percentile
11th

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Seattle sits 38 points below the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Seattle

  1. T#118 Asheville, NC 13
  2. T#118 Baltimore, MD 13
  3. T#120 Seattle, WA — this page 12
  4. T#123 Little Rock, AR 11
  5. T#123 Minneapolis, MN 11

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Seattle

Seattle scores 100 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: