Interbay is a neighborhood of 11,700 residents in Seattle, about 3 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Interbay in Seattle safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B-, Interbay has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 76% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, B+ against C. Seattle as a whole grades C-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Interbay run from B to F, so check the map below.
B-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 607 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
24% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Interbay as a whole, and 76% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Interbay scores 607.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Interbay, Seattle, WA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Interbay 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 in Interbay
Burglaries and car thefts both run high. In Interbay, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 13.5 burglaries and 9.6 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 and 2.7 nationally.
How Interbay compares within Seattle
Crime varies widely across Interbay: 27% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 36% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Interbay run from B to F; every part of Interbay has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 27%C 37%D or F 36%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Interbay has less crime than 59 of the 67 neighborhoods in Seattle. It covers much of the Magnolia, Queen Anne, and Interbay areas.
Is crime going up in Seattle?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Seattle as a whole is up 13%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 6.7 to 7.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 50 to 49 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Seattle. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Seattle
Violent, US
Property, Seattle
Property, US
2016
-9%
+4%
+9%
+15%
2017
-8%
+4%
+4%
+12%
2018
+2%
+0%
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-1%
+4%
+3%
-8%
2021
+21%
+6%
+11%
-10%
2022
+23%
+5%
+13%
-6%
2023
+16%
+2%
+0%
-7%
2024
+13%
-4%
-2%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Interbay
CrimeGrade™ estimates Interbay has about 71 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 92% more than the US as a whole and close to Seattle as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
The largest share of crime reported in Interbay is theft, about 42% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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 crime happens in Seattle
The Seattle Police Department polices Interbay; these figures cover Seattle as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Seattle as a whole, 47% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 33% of them, against 18% 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)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (35%)
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.
How Interbay compares with nearby neighborhoods
Interbay has less crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Magnolia has less.
Two things set Interbay apart: it has 3.1 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 60 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places like that tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.1 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 94% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Interbay: C+ (40 of 100).60 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 90% 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 and assault.B- (54 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 67% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 87% 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 crime costs Interbay
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Interbay about $1,548 a year per household, 28% more than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $22 million a year, or $1,866 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Interbay means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Interbay is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse 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.
Schools in Interbay, Seattle, WA average a SchoolGrade of A: 61% of students test proficient, against 56% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Interbay on SchoolGrade
