Every university is a reflection of the community it is in, and Pullman is a very low crime area. If you want to know how safe a campus is, just look at the surrounding area. Some 16,000 students are enrolled at WSU Pullman, making it one of the largest residential campuses in the western United States. The community of Pullman has 25,630 residents, including the WSU student population. This index gives the WSU campus a rating of 6, and the community of Pullman is given a rating of 5 on a scale of 1-10.
Lower numbers are safer.
The University of Oregon comes out first and WSU is second in the PAC-10 on the APB scale of campus safety. It should be noted that there are wide variations in how individual campuses report crime and the data may not reflect an even comparison. Beginning in 2001, all campuses must report crime uniformly and statistics should become easier to interpret. This page has been accessed times.