Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Property crime per resident is higher in Blaine than in 69% of U.S. towns
That puts it at C for safety, judged on crimes Blaine’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #60 of 130 graded towns in Washington. Violence and property crime split as 2.3 violent crimes and 16.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 4.0 and 32.1 in the rest of Washington.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of WA” is every other Washington city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Blaine
Among Washington towns, closer to the middle
Washington’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Blaine’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 54% of the 130 Washington towns we grade, against 34% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Blaine’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns. Its property rate (16.6) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Blaine | Rest of Washington | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.5 | 4.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.6 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.7 | 4.1 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Blaine’s police reported 44 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.0 in the rest of Washington and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Blaine per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Blaine property | Rest of Washington property | Blaine violent | Rest of Washington violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20.2 | 43.7 | 2.5 | 4.8 |
| 2023 | 16.6 | 37.6 | 2.6 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 21.7 | 32.9 | 1.7 | 4.1 |
| 2025 | 11.5 | 25.8 | 2.6 | 3.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Washington.
92 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
17 violent and 75 property, as reported to the FBI by Blaine’s police.
One person died in crashes on Blaine’s roads in 2019–2023
Blaine had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died. Most of these deaths (1 of 1) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Washington towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (3.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Blaine’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Blaine’s own rate (3.3) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Blaine and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Birch Bay is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Washington towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blaine | C | 2.3 | 16.6 |
| Steilacoom | B | 1.5 | 8.8 |
| Normandy Park | B− | 1.0 | 12.7 |
| Prosser | C+ | 2.1 | 12.9 |
| Woodland | C | 1.3 | 24.9 |
| Union Gap | D− | 1.7 | 71.4 |
The five graded Washington towns closest to Blaine’s population (6,475), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Blaine. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Blaine’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,494 in 2025); our figure for Blaine is 6,475 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Blaine
Is Blaine, WA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Blaine reports more crime per resident than 66% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #60 of 130 in Washington. Its police reported 2.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.0 in the rest of Washington and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Blaine?
2.3 violent and 16.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Washington reports 4.0 and 32.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Blaine?
Blaine’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Blaine”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.