Safer than most, in my opinion. The Evergreen State college's reputation as commie central isn't baseless (though greatly exaggerated by right wing media), and there's quite a few mutual aid programs that exist to a limited capacity, like EGYHOP that do needle exchanges in the street. Unfortunately they are largely full of radlibs but they still do good praxis. There's certainly room for a budding leftist movement to (locally) emerge there

As far as safety goes, MOST days you'll be very safe, but there are many days when there's some large scale right wing rally where chuds from miles around come to congregate in their oversized, pristine pickup trucks. They typically announce their comings weeks in advance and usually only stay for a few hours so they are really easy to avoid