Grimm House · Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Lake Stevens than in 71% of U.S. towns
Its letter for safety is B+, worked out from crimes Lake Stevens’ police reported over 2023 to 2025: #14 of 130 graded towns in Washington. Each year brought 1.1 violent crimes and 6.9 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (4.1 and 32.2 in the rest of Washington). On violence it beats 65% of U.S. towns, and on property crime 69%.
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 Lake Stevens
Among Washington towns, higher
Washington’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Lake Stevens’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 89% of the 130 Washington towns we grade, against 71% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Lake Stevens’ 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 lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Lake Stevens | Rest of Washington | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.7 | 4.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.1 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.2 | 4.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.0 | 3.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Lake Stevens’ police reported 133 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.1 in the rest of Washington and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Lake Stevens 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 1 violent crime, 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 | Lake Stevens property | Rest of Washington property | Lake Stevens violent | Rest of Washington violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9.9 | 43.9 | 1.7 | 4.8 |
| 2023 | 7.7 | 37.8 | 1.1 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 6.5 | 33.1 | 1.2 | 4.2 |
| 2025 | 6.5 | 26.0 | 1.0 | 3.6 |
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.
315 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.
41 violent and 274 property, as reported to the FBI by Lake Stevens’ police.
Six people died in crashes on Lake Stevens’s roads in 2019–2023
Lake Stevens had 6 fatal crashes in five years, in which six people died.
That is about what is typical for Washington towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (5.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Lake Stevens’s size would see about 10 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Lake Stevens’s own rate (3.0) 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.
Lake Stevens and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Stevens | B+ | 1.1 | 6.9 |
| Machias | — | — | — |
| Cavalero | — | — | — |
| Bunk Foss | — | — | — |
| Lake Cassidy | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Machias, Cavalero, Bunk Foss and Lake Cassidy are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
Washington towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Stevens | B+ | 1.1 | 6.9 |
| Edmonds | C− | 2.1 | 24.9 |
| Issaquah | C− | 0.8 | 30.4 |
| Bremerton | C− | 3.9 | 26.3 |
| Puyallup | D | 3.5 | 39.5 |
| Lynnwood | D− | 2.9 | 56.8 |
The five graded Washington towns closest to Lake Stevens’ population (42,091), 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 Lake Stevens. 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 Lake Stevens’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (41,929 in 2025); our figure for Lake Stevens is 42,091 (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 Lake Stevens
Is Lake Stevens, WA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Lake Stevens reports less crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #14 of 130 in Washington. Its police reported 1.1 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.1 in the rest of Washington and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Lake Stevens?
1.1 violent and 6.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Washington reports 4.1 and 32.2; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Lake Stevens in 2025?
Lake Stevens’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Lake Stevens?
Lake Stevens’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Lake Stevens”. 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.