Data through September 2026, Seattle Police Department

Crime in Central Area/Squire Park, Seattle

The violent crime rate in Central Area/Squire Park is 1,359 per 100,000 residents per year, about the same as Seattle as a whole (1,395). It ranks 19 of 50 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Sep 2026

Violent crime

1,359 per 100,000 residents, per year

291 reported in the last 12 months

−3% vs. Seattle (1,395)

Property crime

4,435 per 100,000 residents, per year

950 reported in the last 12 months

−11% vs. Seattle (4,965)

All reported

5,976 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,280 reported in the last 12 months

−10% vs. Seattle (6,655)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 21,420 for Central Area/Squire Park. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending September 2026.

Where Central Area/Squire Park sits in Seattle, and where incidents concentrate

rank 19 of 50

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1the block with the most violent incidents10the tenthCounted over the last 12 months. Point at a mark, or at a row in the table below, to see which street it is.

SaferHigher rateNot rated: park or fewer than 2,500 residentsArea shading: violent crimes per 100,000 residents per year, so you can see how this neighbourhood compares with the ones around it.

Central Area/Squire Park is in the middle of the city’s range: rank 19 of 50. Nearby in the ranking: Bitter Lake (1,459), Brighton/Dunlap (1,414), Northgate (1,340), Ballard South (1,330).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026

Block	Violent	Property	Share of area’s violent
0122XX E Madison St	16	30	5%
0217XX E Madison St	9	9	3%
034XX 23rd Ave	8	6	3%
045XX 16th Ave	7	5	2%
0511XX M L King Jr Way	6	3	2%
0611XX 23rd Ave	5	19	2%

“Block” is the hundred-block as the police department publishes it (for example 26XX SW Barton St), never an exact address. Only blocks with 5 or more violent incidents in the window are listed; the top 6 account for 18% of Central Area/Squire Park’s violent incidents. These are the numbered marks on the map above; hover a row to find it.

Violent crime, month by month

Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Violent crimes in Central Area/Squire Park by month
Month	Violent crimes in Central Area/Squire Park
Oct 2025	28
Nov 2025	16
Dec 2025	25
Jan 2026	22
Feb 2026	16
Mar 2026	19
Apr 2026	25
May 2026	32
Jun 2026	29
Jul 2026	30
Aug 2026	28
Sep 2026	21

When crime happens in Central Area/Squire Park

12 months to Sep 2026

In the last 12 months, half of the property crime reported in Central Area/Squire Park happened between 3 pm and 1 am. No day of the week stood out.

Property crime busiest hour 5 pm

No chart for violent crime: fewer than 300 incidents in 12 months, too few to show a pattern by hour.

Each line is an average day of that kind, as a multiple of the average hour of the week (dashed line), smoothed over three hours. Days run from 6 am to 6 am, so a Friday night stays on Friday. Times are when the incident happened, as recorded by Seattle Police Department; 7% of incidents have no usable time (many unknown times are recorded as midnight or noon) and are left out.

See the numbers by hour

Property crime in Central Area/Squire Park by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	11	22	33
7 am	3	14	17
8 am	11	19	30
9 am	3	22	25
10 am	11	22	33
11 am	6	24	30
12 pm	9	17	26
1 pm	8	25	33
2 pm	17	17	34
3 pm	12	32	44
4 pm	11	26	37
5 pm	9	42	51
6 pm	11	30	41
7 pm	11	40	51
8 pm	15	30	45
9 pm	12	36	48
10 pm	18	30	48
11 pm	16	34	50
12 am	13	37	50
1 am	8	23	31
2 am	6	31	37
3 am	8	19	27
4 am	6	19	25
5 am	10	23	33
Total with a known time	245	634	879

Reported crime by type

last 12 months

Offense	Reported	Per 100k, per year	vs. Seattle
Assault and batteryViolent	253	1,181	−3%
RobberyTaking property by force or threatViolent	38	177	+3%
Theft from vehiclesItems or parts taken from a vehicle, break-ins includedProperty	271	1,265	−12%
TheftShoplifting, pickpocketing and other theft without force or entryProperty	246	1,148	−17%
BurglaryEntering a home or business to stealProperty	165	770	−18%
Property damage and arsonProperty	138	644	+1%
Vehicle theftProperty	130	607	+5%
Drug offensesOther	21	98	−54%
Weapons offensesOther	18	84	no change

Source and dates

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Source: Seattle Police Department, via Seattle Open Data (dataset tazs-3rd5), aggregated by neighborhood
Window: October 2025 to September 2026 (12 months)
Population: 21,420 residents, estimated from 2020 Census blocks
City page: Crime in Seattle, WA
All neighborhoods: Seattle neighborhoods by reported crime rate