Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Has One of the Highest Break-In Rates in the Nation
Posted Friday, January 14, 2022
From NBC Right Now (This article originally ran on 247wallst.com)
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The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area in Washington has one of the highest burglary rates in the country. According to the FBI, 24,849 burglaries were reported in Seattle in 2020, or 617 for every 100,000 people. For context, there were 314 burglaries for every 100,000 people nationwide the same year.
Burglary -- along with larceny and vehicle theft -- is one of three criminal offenses that make up the property crime category. Due in large part to the higher than average burglary rate, the overall property crime rate in Seattle is also higher than average. There were 3,157 property crimes in the metro area for every 100,000 people in 2020 -- well above the national property crime rate of 1,958 per 100,000.
All crime data used in this story is from the FBI's 2020 Uniform Crime Report. Only metro areas for which the boundaries defined by the FBI match the boundaries as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau were considered.