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Table 13

WASHINGTON

Hate Crime Incidents

per Bias Motivation and Quarter

by Agency, 2015

Agency Type Agency name Number of incidents per bias motivation Number of incidents per quarter Population1
Race/
Ethnicity/
Ancestry 		Religion Sexual
orientation 		Disability Gender Gender
Identity 		1st
quarter 		2nd
quarter 		3rd
quarter 		4th
quarter
Total 160 43 57 3 3 9
Cities 130 36 52 3 1 9
Aberdeen 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16,100
Anacortes 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16,351
Arlington 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 19,018
Auburn 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 77,914
Bellevue 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 138,532
Bellingham 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 83,976
Bothell 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 37,346
Burien 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 50,701
Burlington 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8,610
Centralia 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 16,632
Des Moines 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 31,335
Edmonds 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 41,187
Ellensburg 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18,899
Everett 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 107,633
Federal Way 4 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 94,424
Fife 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9,642
Kelso 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 11,756
Kent 12 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 6 2 127,259
Lakewood 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 59,958
Longview 4 0 1 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 36,401
Marysville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 66,374
Mercer Island 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 24,737
Moses Lake 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 22,026
Mountlake Terrace 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 21,051
Mount Vernon 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 33,474
Mukilteo 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 21,171
Olympia 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 49,875
Omak 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4,847
Oroville 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1,676
Orting 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 7,401
Port Angeles 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 19,304
Pullman 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 32,174
Puyallup 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 39,645
Redmond 1 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 60,542
Renton 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 100,015
Republic 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1,086
Richland 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 54,218
Sammamish 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 52,365
SeaTac 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 28,418
Seattle 40 8 27 0 0 8 16 32 23 12 683,700
Shelton 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9,758
Shoreline 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 55,690
Soap Lake 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1,594
Spokane2 3 4 5 0 0 0 3 1 4 4 212,698
Spokane Valley 3 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 92,157
Steilacoom 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 6,228
Sunnyside 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 16,198
Tacoma 6 0 3 0 0 0 2 6 1 0 206,884
Tukwila 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 20,116
Vancouver 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 171,076
Walla Walla 11 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 1 4 31,940
Washougal 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 15,220
Woodway 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1,362
Yakima 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 93,798
Zillah 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3,138
Universities and Colleges 7 0 2 0 1 0
Eastern Washington University 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 13,453
Evergreen State College 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4,219
University of Washington 4 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 44,784
Washington State University, Pullman 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 28,686
Western Washington University 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15,060
Metropolitan Counties 19 7 2 0 0 0
Asotin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Clark 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Cowlitz 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
King 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2
Kitsap 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Pend Oreille 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Pierce 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Skagit 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Snohomish 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Spokane 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0
Thurston 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Whatcom 3 3 1 0 0 0 4 1 2 0
Yakima 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Nonmetropolitan Counties 4 0 0 0 1 0
Clallam 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Garfield 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Grays Harbor 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Lewis 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Okanogan 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Tribal Agencies 0 0 1 0 0 0
Lummi Tribal 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
  • 1 Population figures are published only for the cities. The figures listed for the universities and colleges are student enrollment and were provided by the United States Department of Education for the 2014 school year, the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.
  • 2 Includes one incident reported with more than one bias motivation.

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