What is the crime rate in Mount Vernon, WA?

In 2025, the Mount Vernon Police Department reported 46 violent crimes and 528 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 130 violent and 1,494 property crimes per 100,000 of the 35,352 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: 130
Property per 100,000: 1,494
Violent crimes: 46
Property crimes: 528

Crime reported by the Mount Vernon 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	73	205	744	2,087	35,641
2024	67	190	628	1,782	35,244
2025	46	130	528	1,494	35,352

Violent crimes reported went from 73 in 2023 to 46 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 744 in 2023 to 528 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.

Mount Vernon against Washington and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Mount Vernon	130	1,494
Skagit County	110	1,384
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 Mount Vernon, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Mount Vernon	—	130	1,494
Burlington	3.5 mi	114	4,422
Sedro-Woolley	7.5 mi	97	619
Anacortes	15 mi	71	1,243
Oak Harbor	17 mi	129	940
Arlington	19 mi	249	1,758

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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