Puget, Bellingham, WA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Puget is a neighborhood of 6,280 residents in Bellingham, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Puget?
Property crime is high in Puget: a C, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 83% of Americans live. Theft makes up 48% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B-, and vehicle theft grades B+. Bellingham as a whole grades B- for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 412 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
17% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Puget as a whole, and 83% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Puget scores 412.
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 Puget, Bellingham, WA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Puget in Bellingham, 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 Puget
Burglary at about double the US rate. Puget has 5.1 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 nationally.
Property crime rates and types in Puget
CrimeGrade™ estimates Puget has about 47 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Bellingham 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 Puget, about 48% of the total, followed by vandalism 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 Bellingham
The Bellingham Police Department polices Puget; these figures cover Bellingham as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Bellingham as a whole, 35% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 42% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (45%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (42%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (37%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (39%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in Puget and nearby neighborhoods
Puget has more property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Silver Beach and Samish Hill have the least property crime nearby.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, one sets Puget apart: it has 2.4% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary and vandalism run higher here than that would suggest.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Puget: C (32 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.2.4% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 93% 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. 81% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (20 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 73% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.20% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 80% 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 Puget
Property crime costs Puget about $1.9 million a year, or $311 per resident and about $677 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.
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
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
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.
