Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0More property crime is recorded per resident in Mount Vernon than in 72% of U.S. towns
The rate the grade counts dropped 29% from 2023 to 2025. The overall Safety Grade is C+ (#54 of 130 graded towns in Washington), which means more crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Recorded violent crimes ran at 1.7 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 17.7, against 4.1 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 Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 2 Washington towns on Mount Vernon’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Burlington (D). Big Lake is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Neighbors ↓
Among Washington towns, closer to the middle
Washington’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Mount Vernon’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 58% of the 130 Washington towns we grade, against 36% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Mount Vernon’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 (1.7) 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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Mount Vernon property | Rest of Washington property | Mount Vernon violent | Rest of Washington violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 29.5 | 43.8 | 2.7 | 4.8 |
| 2023 | 20.6 | 37.7 | 2.0 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 17.8 | 33.0 | 1.9 | 4.2 |
| 2025 | 14.9 | 25.9 | 1.3 | 3.6 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Washington.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Mount Vernon | Rest of Washington | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.7 | 4.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.0 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mount Vernon’s police reported 185 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.7 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 Mount Vernon 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.
571 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.
46 violent and 525 property, as reported to the FBI by Mount Vernon’s police.
Seven people died in crashes on Mount Vernon’s roads in 2019–2023
Mount Vernon had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 2 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist.
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 Mount Vernon’s size would see about 9 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mount Vernon’s own rate (4.0) 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.
Mount Vernon and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon | C+ | 1.7 | 17.7 |
| Burlington | D | 1.6 | 58.7 |
| Big Lake | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Big Lake 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon | C+ | 1.7 | 17.7 |
| Pullman | B | 1.6 | 8.6 |
| University Place | C | 2.4 | 20.3 |
| Walla Walla | C− | 3.4 | 20.7 |
| Wenatchee | C− | 2.7 | 24.9 |
| SeaTac | D | 3.7 | 36.0 |
The five graded Washington towns closest to Mount Vernon’s population (35,193), 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 Mount Vernon. 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 Mount Vernon’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (35,352 in 2025); our figure for Mount Vernon is 35,193 (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 Mount Vernon
Is Mount Vernon, WA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mount Vernon reports more crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #54 of 130 in Washington. Its police reported 1.7 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 Mount Vernon?
1.7 violent and 17.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Washington reports 4.1 and 32.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Mount Vernon in 2025?
Mount Vernon’s police reported 2 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 5.7 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Mount Vernon safer than Burlington?
Burlington reports more crime per resident than Mount Vernon: Burlington grades D for safety and Mount Vernon C+. Burlington’s police reported 1.6 violent and 58.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Mount Vernon?
Mount Vernon’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mount Vernon”. 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.