City overview
Washington
51 neighborhoods covered by the Washington police open-data feed. Browse a specific area below or jump into the live app.
Citywide Safety Index
Washington (citywide) reports higher per-capita rates than the FBI national rate. Use the cards below to see which category drives the gap.
persons: 787/100k vs FBI 379.5/100k (+107%)property: 2750/100k vs FBI 1934.1/100k (+42%)
Source: FBI UCR national rate per 100k (2023 revised, per CIUS 2024) · newest report Jul 8, 2026
Compare Washington to another city
Pick a city to render its citywide safety card below — both compared to the FBI national average.
Neighborhoods
- 16th ST Heights
- Adams Morgan
- Barnaby Woods
- Bellevue
- Bloomingdale
- Brentwood
- Brightwood
- Brightwood Park
- Capitol Hill
- Cathedral Heights
- Chevy Chase
- Chinatown
- Columbia Heights
- Congress Heights/Shipley
- DC Medical Center
- Douglass
- Eastland Gardens
- Edgewood
- Forest Hills
- Fort Dupont
- Fort Lincoln/Gateway
- Georgetown
- Georgetown East
- GWU
- Hill East
- Historic Anacostia
- Kent/Palisades
- Kingman Park
- Lamond Riggs
- Lincoln Heights
- Logan Circle/Shaw
- Marshall Heights
- Michigan Park
- Mount Pleasant
- National Mall
- Naval Station & Air Force
- Naylor/Hillcrest
- Petworth
- Saint Elizabeths
- Shepherd Park
- South Columbia Heights
- Stadium Armory
- SW/Waterfront
- Tenleytown
- Trinidad
- Twining
- U St/Pleasant
- Union Station
- Washington Highlands
- Woodley Park
- Woodridge
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How to read this: CommunitySafe summarizes publicly published police reports. Scores reflect historical reporting only — not predictions of future risk, and not a substitute for professional safety advice. These scores should not be used as the sole basis for housing, lending, insurance, or hiring decisions — verify each statistic with the cited official source before acting on it. See /methodology for how the index is computed.
About Washington safety data
This overview aggregates Washington's official police open-data feed across 51 neighborhoods and compares it to the FBI Crime Data Explorer 2023 national rate per 100,000 residents. Washington currently carries a citywide Safety Index of D. Washington (citywide) reports higher per-capita rates than the FBI national rate. Use the cards below to see which category drives the gap.
Use the neighborhood list above to drill into a specific area — every area has its own running incident timeline and category breakdown. Safety is local: a citywide grade smooths over real differences between neighborhoods, so we always recommend reading the area you actually care about rather than the headline number. For the full data sourcing, population normalization, and grade thresholds, see our methodology. To compare Washington against another metro, use the comparison tool above.