Seattle Crime Rate — June 2025

Delridge other-larceny is the dominant signal for June 2025, registering the sharpest single-neighborhood move in Seattle this briefing. Cascade also recorded a fresh other-larceny spike, making larceny-type theft the most active category in the top five this month. No prior-month recurring lead carries over — this pattern is new.

Citywide volume is down 2.5% against the prior 12 months, 52,206 incidents versus 53,539 the year before. The mix is weighted toward structural movement rather than fresh swings: 31 sustained-shift signals and 12 zero-event signals account for the bulk of the 47 total across 20 neighborhoods. The two fresh drops — Northwest theft-from-vehicle and West Seattle burglary — cut against the larceny direction at the top of the rankings.

With no demoted lead and a first-month signal in Delridge, there isn't enough run length yet to call this a sustained pattern. Downtown theft-from-vehicle has settled into a sustained-shift classification, which is worth tracking as a longer-arc marker. The overall citywide decline holds, but the concentration of larceny signals across two neighborhoods in one month makes June worth revisiting when July's data arrives.

Sustained drops worth naming

Motor Vehicle Theft ran below trend in the trailing 12 months — 29% down from the year before. Sustained shifts often precede a baseline reset; we surface them at the same prominence as spikes.