Over the last 12 months, 1,520 crimes were reported in Ballard — about 134.3 per 1,000 residents per year, above the citywide rate of 68.3. Counts include only offenses that carry a location in the public data, so they understate violent crime. There are also 98 traffic crashes in the same window and 29 open building violations on record nearby.
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Crime is compared per resident (rate); counts are totals for the area. Other figures are compared to the average Seattle neighborhood.
Over the last 12 months, 1,520 crimes were reported in Ballard — about 134.3 per 1,000 residents per year, above the citywide rate of 68.3. Counts include only offenses that carry a location in the public data, so they understate violent crime.
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Search BallardCrimes cover the Ballard Community Reporting Area (the boundary outlined on the map), over the last 12 months. Crime is compared per resident (rate), so a large, busy area can have a high total but a lower rate; crash and violation counts are compared to the average Seattle neighborhood. Source: City of Seattle open data (data.seattle.gov). SPD withholds the location of sensitive offenses: about 36% of violent offenses over the last six months (nearly all rapes and homicides, about a third of aggravated assaults, and one in six robberies) carry no location in the public data, so they cannot be placed near an address. The University of Washington campus is policed by UWPD and is not covered by this feed. Counts here include only offenses with a location and understate violent crime. The Port of Seattle Police (Sea-Tac and the seaport) and the King County Sheriff’s Office (Boeing Field) have their own jurisdictions and are not in this feed. SDOT back-fills collision records for about three months, so crash counts end 90 days before the latest record and the newest collisions are not yet included. The feed has no property-damage-only collisions in recent months, so counts are not comparable to cities that publish them. Open data updates on a delay, so the most recent records may be incomplete. For general information only — not legal, financial, or real-estate advice.
Outline shows the Ballard Community Reporting Area; figures count records inside it. Search an address for block-level detail.