District safety · Seattle · data through August 2026

How safe is Northeast Seattle?

Northeast Seattle covers 8 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Seattle index. Its median safety index is 68/100 — above the citywide median of 54, so a typical neighborhood here reads safer than a typical one across Seattle. Windermere scores highest at 79/100; Roosevelt lowest at 37/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 3 of 8 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 4 moderate, 1 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Northeast, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Windermere	79/100	Low risk	123
2 Laurelhurst	78/100	Low risk	108
3 Wedgwood	76/100	Low risk	136
4 Sand Point	68/100	Moderate	176
5 View Ridge	67/100	Moderate	198
6 Bryant	64/100	Moderate	235
7 Ravenna	59/100	Moderate	305
8 Roosevelt	37/100	Elevated	710

How Northeast compares across Seattle

Districts (safest first)	Median index	Neighborhoods
Magnolia	78/100	3
Beacon Hill	73/100	4
Greater Duwamish	72/100	5
West Seattle	71/100	8
Northeast (this page)	68/100	8
Lake City	63/100	5
Northgate	62/100	4
Delridge	61/100	6
Northwest	58/100	5
North Central	56/100	4
Capitol Hill	54/100	5
Ballard	49/100	5
Central Area	49/100	6
Queen Anne	46/100	4
Rainier Valley	45/100	6
Cascade	41/100	3
University District	22/100	3
Downtown	10/100	8

Common questions

What is the safest neighborhood in Northeast Seattle?

Windermere has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Northeast Seattle, at 79/100 (low risk), from 123 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Laurelhurst (78/100) and Wedgwood (76/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Northeast Seattle has the most reported crime?

Roosevelt has the lowest index in Northeast Seattle, at 37/100, with 710 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. A low score means more is reported around that center, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is Northeast Seattle safe?

Across its 8 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 68/100, against 54 across Seattle. 3 rate low risk, 4 moderate, 1 elevated and 0 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the district — check the individual neighborhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute safety index calculated?

SafeRoute weights each incident reported to the Seattle Police Department by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighborhood center, and normalizes against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The figure shown for Northeast Seattle is the median of its 8 neighborhoods — the district is not measured separately.

Methodology

Each incident reported to the Seattle Police Department (via Seattle Open Data) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighborhood we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its center, and normalize against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the Seattle City GIS Neighborhood Map Atlas — 94 neighborhoods grouped into 20 districts (so Capitol Hill and West Seattle, which are districts, appear as section headings). Because Seattle's dense downtown far outweighs its residential neighborhoods, the index is calibrated to the citywide median so a typical neighborhood reads mid-scale. Time-of-day charts use SPD incident timestamps, severity-weighted. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares neighborhoods within Seattle. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Seattle's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.