What is the crime rate in Cheney, WA?

In 2025, the Cheney Police Department reported 35 violent crimes and 209 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 279 violent and 1,666 property crimes per 100,000 of the 12,547 residents it serves.

Across Washington the rates were 292 and 2,018.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 279
Property per 100,000: 1,666
Violent crimes: 35
Property crimes: 209

Crime reported by the Cheney Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	41	329	246	1,973	12,469
2024	45	363	209	1,686	12,393
2025	35	279	209	1,666	12,547

Violent crimes reported went from 41 in 2023 to 35 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 246 in 2023 to 209 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Cheney against Washington and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Cheney	279	1,666
Spokane County	353	2,963
Washington	292	2,018
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Cheney, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Cheney	—	279	1,666
Airway Heights	11 mi	416	3,254
Spokane	14 mi	613	4,393
Spokane Valley	20 mi	234	3,341
Liberty Lake	25 mi	132	1,323

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

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