Alpena, MI has a C safety grade (40/100) with a violent crime rate of 514 per 100,000, 46% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Alpena (10,108 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MI and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Alpena, MI is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 46% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Alpena, MI shows violent crime at 514.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 989.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 46% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 514.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Alpena ranks 50 of 366 — above 316 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +175.2% 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 Alpena's 514.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kalamazoo Township (510.3), Roseville (522.0), Alma (503.8), Gaylord (499.8). 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 34.2% of the 152 Part I offenses reported in Alpena for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 17.5 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 434.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 514.4 in 2024 (+18.4%). The highest observed value was 514.4 in 2024 and the lowest 396.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Alpena'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 8.2 Census sq mi, Alpena logged 12.2 property and 6.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Alpena leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,235.
Violent offenses are 34% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Alpena offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.2 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 | 100 | 989.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 74 | 732.1 |
| Burglary | 20 | 197.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 59.4 |
| Arson | 3 | 29.7 |
| Violent Crime | 52 | 514.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 36 | 356.2 |
| Rape | 16 | 158.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 9,900 | 434.3 | 1555.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,828 | 396.8 | 1271.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,146 | 482.9 | 1222.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,116 | 484.4 | 1067.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,108 | 514.4 | 989.3 |
Alpena Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Alpena's 152 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 Alpena in population. Their populations run from 9,723 to 10,450, against 10,108 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Alpena sits at 514.4/100K violent (grade C); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Alpena at 514.4/100K violent and 989.3/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
514.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
989.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Alpena reported 52 violent crimes and 100 property crimes, for a total of 152 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Alpena's violent crime rate increased by 6.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.3%.
The most common crime type in Alpena is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.7% of all reported crimes (74 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Alpena figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Alpena's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Alpena, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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