Healthcare & Safety in Port Angeles
Port Angeles offers genuinely substantial regional healthcare access via Olympic Medical Center, while crime data is disclosed honestly as running meaningfully elevated relative to the national average.
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Olympic Medical Center's principal facility, Olympic Memorial Hospital in Port Angeles, operates 126 in-patient beds and is one of only two Level III trauma centers in the entire state of Washington -- a genuinely significant regional healthcare anchor given the Olympic Peninsula's remote location.
Crime runs genuinely elevated -- disclosed honestly
Port Angeles's overall crime rate is cited at 46.48 per 1,000 residents against a national rate of 33.37. City-Data.com's 2024 crime index (329) runs 1.4 times the U.S. average, higher than 90.8% of U.S. cities, placing Port Angeles in roughly the 16th percentile for safety nationally -- a real, meaningfully elevated profile disclosed plainly rather than downplayed.
No specific neighborhood is named as unsafe
Per this dataset's site policy, no specific neighborhood within Port Angeles is called out as higher- or lower-crime here -- confirm current, address-specific data directly with local law enforcement before relocating.
Key takeaways
- Olympic Medical Center's 126-bed Olympic Memorial Hospital is one of only two Level III trauma centers in Washington state.
- Port Angeles's crime rate runs genuinely elevated -- 1.4 times the U.S. average per City-Data.com's 2024 index.
- Port Angeles falls in roughly the 16th percentile for safety nationally -- disclosed honestly rather than minimized.
- No specific neighborhood is named as unsafe here, per site policy -- confirm current, address-specific data directly.
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