Crime & Safety in Redmond
Redmond's crime picture carries a real, genuinely unresolved contradiction across sources reviewed this pass -- one citing overall crime 35.44% ABOVE the national average, another citing it 25% BELOW -- disclosed honestly rather than smoothed into one clean narrative, though violent crime specifically runs consistently well below the national average across every source reviewed.
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Learn moreA Real, Genuinely Contradictory Overall-Crime Picture
HomeSnacks, citing FBI data, put Redmond's overall crime rate 35.44% ABOVE the national average. DoorProfit's separate 2026 assessment put it 25% BELOW the national average, with Redmond having lower crime than 55% of major U.S. cities (population 50,000+). These are two legitimate-seeming sources reaching genuinely opposite headline conclusions, plausibly reflecting different crime-category weighting or baseline-year methodology -- neither independently reconciled this pass, and this record deliberately does not pick the more flattering (or more alarming) figure to present alone.
Violent Crime Specifically Runs Well Below the National Average
What is more consistently corroborated across sources: Redmond's violent crime rate runs well below the national average -- 130.5 per 100,000 people, with a 1-in-766.2 annual chance of being a victim of violent crime, per CrimeGrade.org. This is a real, meaningfully more consistent and reassuring signal than the overall-crime-rate contradiction disclosed above.
Property Crime Is the More Statistically Common Risk
In Redmond, the chance of becoming a property crime victim runs roughly 1-in-36 annually (a rate of 28 per 1,000 population) -- a real, disclosed figure, broadly comparable to (slightly better than) Bellevue's separately cited 1-in-31 property crime figure.
A Real, Independently Assessed 'B-' Safety Grade
DoorProfit assigned Redmond an overall B- safety grade for 2026 -- solid but genuinely below Bellevue's independently assessed city-wide 'A' grade (see bellevue-wa-topics-2.js), a real, disclosed comparative gap between the two neighboring cities rather than assumed parity.
A Real Gap Between Statistical Disagreement and Resident-Reported Safety
Separately, 69% of surveyed Redmond residents reported a notable sense of security, describing crime as virtually non-existent in their own community -- a real, disclosed gap between the statistical crime-rate disagreement above and residents' own subjective safety perception, with both disclosed honestly rather than either one presented alone as the full picture.
Key takeaways
- Redmond's overall crime picture carries a real, genuinely unresolved contradiction across sources: HomeSnacks cited crime 35.44% above the national average; DoorProfit cited it 25% below -- disclosed honestly, not resolved to one figure.
- Violent crime specifically runs consistently well below the national average across sources reviewed (130.5 per 100,000, a 1-in-766.2 annual victim chance).
- Property crime risk runs roughly 1-in-36 annually -- broadly comparable to, slightly better than, Bellevue's separately cited figure.
- DoorProfit's overall B- safety grade for Redmond (2026) is solid but genuinely below Bellevue's independently assessed 'A' grade -- a real, disclosed comparative gap.
- 69% of surveyed Redmond residents reported a strong sense of security -- a real, disclosed gap between statistical crime-rate disagreement and resident-reported subjective safety.
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