Olympic Hills, Seattle, WA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Olympic Hills is a neighborhood of 11,400 residents in Seattle, about 9 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Olympic Hills?
Olympic Hills grades F for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 96% of Americans live. Theft makes up 48% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades D+, and vehicle theft grades F. Seattle as a whole grades F for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
4% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Olympic Hills as a whole, and 96% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Olympic Hills scores 0.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Olympic Hills, Seattle, WA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Olympic Hills in Seattle, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Olympic Hills
Car thefts and burglaries both run high. In Olympic Hills, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 10.8 car thefts and 9.2 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 2.4 nationally.
How Olympic Hills compares within Seattle
Every part of Olympic Hills grades D or F for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Olympic Hills run from D to F.
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D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Olympic Hills has less property crime than 12 of the 67 neighborhoods in Seattle. It covers much of the University District, Wedgwood, and Ravenna areas.
Is property crime going up in Seattle?
Reported property crime in Seattle as a whole peaked in 2022 and has fallen 13% since, back near its 2019 level. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 50 to 49 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
SeattleUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Seattle. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Seattle
Property, US
2016
+9%
+15%
2017
+4%
+12%
2018
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+3%
-8%
2021
+11%
-10%
2022
+13%
-6%
2023
+0%
-7%
2024
-2%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Olympic Hills
CrimeGrade™ estimates Olympic Hills has about 54 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Seattle as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Olympic Hills, about 48% of the total, followed by vehicle theft and burglary.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Seattle
The Seattle Police Department polices Olympic Hills; these figures cover Seattle as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Seattle as a whole, 47% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 49% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (47%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (49%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (33%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (31%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in Olympic Hills and nearby neighborhoods
Olympic Hills has more property crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Matthews Beach and Meridian Park have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Olympic Hills. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Olympic Hills has more property crime than 99% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Olympic Hills apart: it has 62 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and 4.3 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Olympic Hills: C (39 of 100).62 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 91% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.4.3 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 84% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft.B- (51 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 64% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.14 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Olympic Hills
Property crime costs Olympic Hills about $5.0 million a year, or $439 per resident and about $958 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Olympic Hills is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
