The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Pullman, WA
Pullman is a city of 32,200 in Whitman County · Updated November 2026
Is Pullman, WA safe?
Yes. Crime is low across most of the US, and lower still in Pullman: an overall CrimeGrade™ of A, safer than the neighborhoods where 63% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Pullman run from A+ to B+, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 889 of 1,000Safer than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
63% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Pullman as a whole, and 37% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Pullman scores 889.
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 Pullman, WA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Pullman, 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 Pullman
Reported rape is the exception. Pullman grades A for violent crime, but reported rape grades B+, worse than in the neighborhoods where 65% of Americans live.
Aggravated assault runs low. Pullman has 0.78 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, a small fraction of the US rate of 2.6.
The safest and least safe parts of Pullman
Every part of Pullman where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Pullman run from A+ to B+; 57% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Pullman, the southwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Pullman?
Reported crime in Pullman has held about steady since 2019: violent crime is up 1% and property crime up 3%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults stayed at about 1.3 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 7.9 to 8.1 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 30% and property crime fell 18%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
PullmanUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Pullman. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Pullman
Violent, US
Property, Pullman
Property, US
2016
+18%
+4%
+156%
+15%
2017
-42%
+4%
+93%
+12%
2018
+11%
+0%
+40%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-35%
+4%
-1%
-8%
2021
+2%
+6%
+9%
-10%
2022
-17%
+5%
+21%
-6%
2023
+44%
+2%
+25%
-7%
2024
+1%
-4%
+3%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Pullman
CrimeGrade™ estimates Pullman has about 20 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 48% less than the US as a whole and 57% less than Washington.
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.
Theft is the most common crime in Pullman, about 33% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
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 Pullman
Pullman has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Pullman, 73% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 42% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (73%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (49%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (67%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Pullman compares with nearby cities
Pullman has the most crime of its 6 nearest cities.
Two things set Pullman apart: it has 16.2% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 7.1 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson; here burglary and vandalism sit near the national middle.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.16.2% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 97% of US city residents
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 Pullman: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
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. 84% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (17 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 51% of US city residents
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.7.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 80% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.39% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 75% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.50 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 62% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Pullman on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Pullman
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Pullman about $632 a year per household, 48% less 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 $27 million a year, or $829 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.9 million
$60
Rape
$860,000
$27
Robbery
$90,000
$3
Assault
$2.0 million
$61
Burglary
$460,000
$14
Theft
$1.1 million
$33
Vehicle theft
$230,000
$7
Arson
$78,000
$2
Vandalism
$940,000
$29
Total
$7.6 million
$237
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 Pullman 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. Pullman 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
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.
Schools in Pullman, WA average a SchoolGrade of A-: 57% of students test proficient, against 44% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Pullman on SchoolGrade
