Auburn Hills, MI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 6% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Auburn Hills, MI shows violent crime at 372.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,906.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 6% 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.
C safety grade
372.8/100K violent
1906.3/100K property
+6% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Auburn Hills, MI
Comparable rate records
Auburn Hills's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Auburn Hills's 372.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bad Axe (371.4), Marine City (375.1), Marlette (378.0), Big Rapids (363.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Auburn Hills reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 372.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Auburn Hills ranks 88 of 366 — above 278 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +99.4% 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 425.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 372.8 in 2024 (-12.4%). The highest observed value was 451.4 in 2021 and the lowest 272.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Auburn Hills'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.
Auburn Hills's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 16.6 Census sq mi, Auburn Hills logged 29.8 property and 5.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Auburn Hills's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 593 offenses; mix index 5,349).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+36.8%
272.5 → 372.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
-16.1%
2271.9 → 1906.3/100K
Property offenses lead Auburn Hills's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
496
1906.3
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
424
1629.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
46
176.8
-
Burglary
26
99.9
-
Arson
3
11.5
-
Violent Crime
97
372.8
431.4
Aggravated Assault
72
276.7
-
Rape
17
65.3
-
Robbery
7
26.9
-
Murder
1
3.8
-
Auburn Hills Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Auburn Hills property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Auburn Hills Police Department
Reporting agency for Auburn Hills NIBRS-participating
Auburn Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Auburn Hills's 593 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Michigan
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Michigan cities closest to Auburn Hills in population. Their populations run from 24,751 to 27,193, against 26,019 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Auburn Hills reported 97 violent crimes and 496 property crimes, for a total of 593 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Auburn Hills?
From 2023 to 2024, Auburn Hills's violent crime rate increased by 36.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.1%.
What is the most common crime in Auburn Hills?
The most common crime type in Auburn Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.5% of all reported crimes (424 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Auburn Hills 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Auburn Hills, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.