Seattle, Washington · Neighborhood crime trends

Seattle Downtown

Name: Crimes per 1,000 residents by neighborhood, Downtown, Q1 2022 to Q2 2026
Creator: CrimesLog

8 neighborhoods - a quarterly race to the lowest crime rate.

Crime Trends: Neighborhoods compared - each quarter from Q1 2022

Seattle as a whole averaged 22.8 crimes for every 1,000 residents per quarter in Q2 2026, while Downtown averaged 49.0, hence it is generally less safe when all crimes are considered.

How do the 8 neighborhoods of Downtown compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 2,972 crimes across them, 49.0 for every 1,000 residents. That is 9.0% above a year earlier and 20.4% below Q1 2022, the first quarter we track.

Denny Triangle has the lowest rate of the everyday neighborhoods (20.9 per 1,000), followed by Belltown (33.4) and First Hill (41.2). Pioneer Square has the highest (90.3).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 8 SEATTLE DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOODs race across 18 quarter periods from Q1 2022 to Q2 2026 - one crime category at a time or all together. The race chart can be used to compare average crime rates by category against Seattle's average.

Neighborhood boundaries are defined by the City of Seattle and simplified by CrimesLog.

A little history

Downtown in Seattle. Seattle's founders settled in 1852 in what is now Pioneer Square, after a brief six-month settlement at Alki Point. Downtown is the central business district of Seattle. It is fairly compact, hemmed in by hills to the north and east, Elliott Bay to the west, and reclaimed land that was once tidal flats to the south.

Notable neighborhoods in Downtown include:

Pioneer Square and Yesler Terrace. Pioneer Square, in the southwest corner of downtown, was once the heart of the city. Its wooden buildings nearly all burned in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, and dozens of brick and stone buildings were built by the end of 1890. Yesler Terrace, completed in 1941 as the state's first public housing development, occupies much of the former Yesler Hill, also called Profanity Hill.

Belltown and Denny Triangle. Belltown sits on the downtown waterfront, on land flattened in a regrading project. It is named for William Nathaniel Bell, on whose land claim it was built, and was once a semi-industrial arts district. The Denny Triangle stretches north of Downtown to the Seattle Center grounds. Its flat terrain was originally a steep hill, removed in the Denny Regrade in the first decades of the 20th century.

Lowest rate (everyday)

Denny Triangle

20.9 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

Pioneer Square

90.3 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

49.0 per 1,000

9.0% above a year earlier · down

20.4% below Q1 2022

Compared

8 neighborhoods

60,639 residents · 18 quarters

Seattle Downtown neighborhood quarterly crime race

Press ▶︎ to watch Q1 2022 to Q2 2026. Tick one crime category or several; hover a bar for the neighborhood. Property crimes includes burglaries and thefts.

Crime categories

Looking Down James Street, Seattle, 1963, Yesler Terrace

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Fall 2007 024 - Flickr - GregTheBusker, Denny Triangle — **Denny Triangle** · Fall 2007 024 - Flickr - GregTheBusker
Photo: Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Denny Regrade, 2nd Avenue, Seattle C1909, Belltown — **Belltown** · Denny Regrade, 2nd Avenue, Seattle C1909
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Garrand Hall of Seattle University 芸術と科学のブランチ, First Hill — **First Hill** · Garrand Hall of Seattle University 芸術と科学のブランチ
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First Avenue, 1968, Pike-Market — **Pike-Market** · First Avenue, 1968
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Entrance Hall of Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Central Business District — **Central Business District** · Entrance Hall of Fairmont Olympic Hotel
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Centurylink Field, from Passenger Bridge at King Street Station, Pioneer Square — **Pioneer Square** · Centurylink Field, from Passenger Bridge at King Street Station
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