Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
Raw data sources: 18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
Date(s) & Update Frequency: Reflects 2022 calendar year; released from FBI in Oct. 2023 (latest available). Updated annually. Where is 2023 data?
Methodology: Our nationwide meta-analysis overcomes the issues inherent in any crime database, including non-reporting and reporting errors. This is possible by associating the 9.4 million reported crimes in the U.S, including over 2 million geocoded point locations…. Read more about Scout's Crime Data
With a crime rate of 40 per one thousand residents, Poulsbo has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 25. Within Washington, more than 83% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Poulsbo.
Separately, it is always interesting and important to compare a city's crime rate with those of similarly sized communities - a fair comparison as larger cities tend to have more crime. NeighborhoodScout has done just that. With a population of 12,039, Poulsbo has a combined rate of violent and property crime that is very high compared to other places of similar population size. Regardless of whether Poulsbo does well or poorly compared to all other cities and towns in the US of all sizes, compared to places with a similar population, it fares badly. Few other communities of this size have a crime rate as high as Poulsbo.
Now let us turn to take a look at how Poulsbo does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Poulsbo.
From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Poulsbo occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Poulsbo; such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder; is 1 in 317. This equates to a rate of 3 per one thousand inhabitants.
In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Poulsbo is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Poulsbo, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 27, which is a rate of 37 per one thousand population.
Importantly, we found that Poulsbo has one of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the nation according to our analysis of FBI crime data. This is compared to communities of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. In fact, your chance of getting your car stolen if you live in Poulsbo is one in 194.
(100 is safest)
Violent | Property | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
Number of Crimes |
38 |
442 |
480 |
Crime Rate
|
3.16 |
36.71 |
39.87 |
Murder | Rape | Robbery | Assault | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 0 | 6 | 8 | 24 |
Rate per 1,000 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0.66 | 1.99 |
Murder | Rape | Robbery | Assault | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 21,156 | 133,294 | 220,450 | 893,980 |
Rate per 1,000 | 0.06 | 0.40 | 0.66 | 2.68 |
burglary | theft | motor vehicle theft | |
---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 63 | 317 | 62 |
Rate per 1,000 | 5.23 | 26.33 | 5.15 |
burglary | theft | motor vehicle theft | |
---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 899,293 | 4,672,363 | 942,173 |
Rate per 1,000 | 2.70 | 14.02 | 2.83 |