Albion, MI has a F safety grade (5/100) with a violent crime rate of 1317 per 100,000, 274% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Albion is a small municipal reporter (7,212 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MI and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Albion, MI is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 274% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Albion, MI shows violent crime at 1,317.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,814.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 274% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 1317.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Albion ranks 10 of 366 — above 356 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +604.6% against the cohort median of 187.0. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Albion's 1317.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Manistique (1325.0), Lansing (1345.1), Kalamazoo (1283.5), Buena Vista Township (1376.1). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 31.9% of the 298 Part I offenses reported in Albion for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 15.2 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1205.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1317.2 in 2024 (+9.3%). The highest observed value was 1331.8 in 2023 and the lowest 827.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Albion's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 4.4 Census sq mi, Albion logged 46 property and 21.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Albion leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,374.
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Albion offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 203 | 2814.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 147 | 2038.3 |
| Burglary | 34 | 471.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 22 | 305 |
| Arson | 2 | 27.7 |
| Violent Crime | 95 | 1317.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 81 | 1123.1 |
| Rape | 12 | 166.4 |
| Robbery | 2 | 27.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,381 | 1205.1 | 3221.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,336 | 827.7 | 2939.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,940 | 1095.7 | 3690.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,584 | 1331.8 | 2795.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,212 | 1317.2 | 2814.8 |
Albion Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Albion's 298 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Michigan cities closest to Albion in population. Their populations run from 6,965 to 7,509, against 7,212 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Albion sits at 1,317.2/100K violent (grade F); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Albion reported 95 violent crimes and 203 property crimes, for a total of 298 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Albion's violent crime rate decreased by 1.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.7%.
The most common crime type in Albion is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.3% of all reported crimes (147 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Albion is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Albion's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Albion, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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