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Columbia County Sheriff's Office
County agency in Columbia, Washington, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2012.
- ORI
- WA0070000
- Type
- County
- County
- Columbia
- State
- Washington (WA)
- FBI reporting
- Reporting since 2012-01-01
- Location
- 46.3208, -117.9783
Workforce
As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 4,035.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 4,035 | 2.23 |
| 2024 | 10 | 1 | 4,148 | 2.65 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1 | 4,063 | 3.45 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1 | 4,151 | 3.13 |
| 2021 | 8 | 0 | 4,014 | 1.99 |
| 2020 | 8 | 0 | 3,960 | 2.02 |
| 2019 | 8 | 1 | 4,041 | 2.23 |
| 2018 | 10 | 0 | 4,057 | 2.46 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2 | 3,923 | 3.06 |
| 2016 | 8 | 1 | 3,928 | 2.29 |
| 2015 | 8 | 1 | 3,968 | 2.27 |
| 2014 | 8 | 1 | 4,031 | 2.23 |
Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.
Crime and clearances
Offences and clearances filed by Columbia County Sheriff's Office in its monthly returns to the FBI, added up by calendar year, 2019–2026. Violent crime and property crime are the FBI’s two categories. These are the counts as filed: Police Census does not turn them into a rate.
| Year | Months filed | Offences | Cleared | Cleared as % of offences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 of 12 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 100.0% |
| 2024 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 50.0% |
| 2023 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 83.3% |
| 2022 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 75.0% |
| 2021 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2020 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 66.7% |
| 2019 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 77.8% |
| Year | Months filed | Offences | Cleared | Cleared as % of offences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 of 12 | 7 | 2 | 28.6% |
| 2025 | 12 | 25 | 7 | 28.0% |
| 2024 | 12 | 33 | 7 | 21.2% |
| 2023 | 12 | 34 | 9 | 26.5% |
| 2022 | 12 | 93 | 16 | 17.2% |
| 2021 | 12 | 54 | 5 | 9.3% |
| 2020 | 12 | 66 | 4 | 6.1% |
| 2019 | 12 | 78 | 7 | 9.0% |
Reading the table. “Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A 0 is a figure the agency filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting: that year is not complete in the file we read, so where this agency has no 2026 figures the table says “Not yet in the FBI’s file” rather than “Not reported”. We can see that the agency is absent from the file so far; we cannot tell whether it has not filed or has not yet been published, and we do not guess. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months the agency filed, so it is not a full-year total. A dash in the last column means the percentage cannot be worked out: it needs both figures, and at least one offence.
“Cleared” is the FBI file’s clearance count for the year. Clearances in a year can relate to offences from earlier years, so the percentage is not the share of that year’s offences that were solved, and it can exceed 100%. Figures are not adjusted: a year far below the agency’s neighbouring years, or a 0 beside many offences, may reflect what was submitted rather than what happened. The file does not say which, and Police Census does not guess.
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, summarized data for agency record WA0070000.
Arrests
Arrests made by Columbia County Sheriff's Office, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.
| Year | Months filed | Arrests |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 of 12 | 14 |
| 2025 | 12 | 49 |
| 2024 | 12 | 66 |
| 2023 | 12 | 54 |
| 2022 | 12 | 44 |
| 2021 | 12 | 17 |
| 2020 | 12 | 29 |
| 2019 | 12 | 45 |
“Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting, so an absent agency reads “Not yet in the FBI’s file”: absent from the file so far, which is not the same claim as having filed nothing. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, arrest data for agency record WA0070000.
Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file
2 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Columbia County Sheriff's Office for 2013, as at 14 August 2026. The table lists every year from 1991 to 2025 for which the file has at least one.
| Year | Incidents appearing in the file |
|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 |
| 1996 | 1 |
| 1993 | 1 |
| Bias motivation | Incidents |
|---|---|
| Anti-Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
| Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry | 2 |
| Anti-Black or African American | 1 |
| Anti-Gay (Male) | 1 |
| Anti-White | 1 |
Absence from this file is not a zero. The file lists incidents that were reported to the FBI. An agency can be missing from it because it recorded none, because it did not report, or because it does not take part in the FBI’s hate crime program, and nothing Police Census holds can tell these apart. In any one year the file lists incidents for only a minority of the agencies the FBI counts as reporting.
The figures are counts of incidents as they appear in the file, as at 14 August 2026; Police Census does not turn them into a rate and does not compare them with other agencies. Offence and bias wording is the FBI’s own, unaltered. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, additional datasets, hate crime bulk file, agency record WA0070000.
Washington use-of-force policy
The Washington State Attorney General’s Office publishes a register of law enforcement agencies. Its question is whether the agency’s use-of-force policy is consistent with the AGO model policy. The register lists this agency as “Columbia County Sheriff's Office” and answers:
Yes
Last updated, as the AGO’s register shows it: 2022-11-29. That is the date on the register, not a date Police Census checked the policy, and the answer may have changed since.
Source: Washington Attorney General, law enforcement use of force and de-escalation, read on 2026-10-08. The register’s entries are matched to FBI agency records by name; Police Census attaches one only where exactly one agency fits.
Source
Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record WA0070000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.
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