Ann Arbor, MI has a C safety grade (55/100) with a violent crime rate of 303 per 100,000, 14% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 118,025 residents, Ann Arbor is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MI and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Ann Arbor, MI is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 14% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ann Arbor, MI shows violent crime at 302.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,715.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 14% below 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ann Arbor's 302.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Decatur (303.0), Melvindale (301.6), Capac (306.1), Lawrence (297.0). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 302.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ann Arbor ranks 113 of 366 — above 253 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +61.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 252.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 302.5 in 2024 (+20.0%). The highest observed value was 314.2 in 2023 and the lowest 252.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Ann Arbor'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 28.4 Census sq mi, Ann Arbor logged 71.3 property and 12.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Ann Arbor's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 2,382 offenses; mix index 5,537).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Ann Arbor offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (28.4 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 | 2,025 | 1715.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,737 | 1471.7 |
| Burglary | 185 | 156.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 103 | 87.3 |
| Arson | 7 | 5.9 |
| Violent Crime | 357 | 302.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 275 | 233 |
| Rape | 58 | 49.1 |
| Robbery | 24 | 20.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 120,647 | 252 | 1345.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 119,805 | 294.6 | 1449 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 120,549 | 311.9 | 1734.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 118,072 | 314.2 | 1776.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 118,025 | 302.5 | 1715.7 |
Ann Arbor Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ann Arbor's 2,382 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 Ann Arbor in population. Their populations run from 87,422 to 135,843, against 118,025 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Ann Arbor sits at 302.5/100K violent (grade C); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Ann Arbor at 302.5/100K violent and 1,715.7/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
302.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,715.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-3.7% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Ann Arbor reported 357 violent crimes and 2,025 property crimes, for a total of 2,382 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Ann Arbor's violent crime rate decreased by 3.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.4%.
The most common crime type in Ann Arbor is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.9% of all reported crimes (1,737 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Ann Arbor's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Ann Arbor's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ann Arbor, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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