Port Orchard, Bremerton tie for 10th most dangerous city in the state

Port Orchard and Bremerton are tied for 10th as the most dangerous places in Washington state, according to Movoto.com.

Port Orchard and Bremerton are tied for 10th as the most dangerous places in Washington state, according to Movoto.com.

Movoto.com stated it analyzed data collected from the F.B.I. Crime Report 2012, for all reported cities of more than 10,000 people. The website looked at the following criteria: murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, theft and vehicle theft and divided the crimes into four categories: murders, violent crimes, property crimes and total crimes

“Last on our safety list was the smallest spot to make our dangerous top 10, at merely 11,444 locals,” stated the website. “Unfortunately for those locals, they had a 1-in-13 chance of being the victim of a crime, due to the fourth most property crime and the fourth most total crime on our list.”

Movoto.com said Port Orchard had the seventh most violent crimes with 603 crimes of that type per 100,000 people reported in 2012. Fortunately, Port Orchard had no murders reported that year and that their rapes per 100,000 people were fairly low.

The website reported that Bremerton (pop. 39,433) had 96 rapes, 112 robberies, and 373 assaults per 100,000 people in 2012. Bremerton also had the 15th most property crime, with most of those crimes being thefts and burglaries. All that culminated in this city having the 13th most total crime in all of Washington, and a 1-in-17 chance of being the victim of a crime.

Movoto.com lists Sammamish as the safest place to live in the state with only 34 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

Movoto.com lists the following cities as the top 10 most dangerous places:

1. Tukwila

2. Yakima

3. Spokane

4. Burien

5. Tacoma

6. SeaTac

7. Centralia

8. Auburn

9. Longview

10. Port Orchard, Bremerton

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