Bath Township, MI has a B safety grade (72/100) with a violent crime rate of 215 per 100,000, 39% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Bath Township (13,473 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
Bath Township, MI is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 39% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bath Township, MI shows violent crime at 215.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 712.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 39% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 53.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 215.2 in 2024 (+304.9%). The highest observed value was 215.2 in 2024 and the lowest 53.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Bath Township reported 29 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 13,473. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bath Township's 215.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Chocolay Township (215.9), Richland (213.0), Laurium (212.9), Ludington (211.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.2% of the 125 Part I offenses reported in Bath Township for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 6.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 215.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bath Township ranks 162 of 366 — above 204 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +15.1% 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.
Property counts dominate Bath Township'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.
Based on 29 reported violent incidents in a population of 13,473. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Bath Township leans on larceny-theft at 59% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,921.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Bath Township offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 96 | 712.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 74 | 549.2 |
| Burglary | 12 | 89.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 74.2 |
| Arson | 2 | 14.8 |
| Violent Crime | 29 | 215.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 19 | 141 |
| Rape | 5 | 37.1 |
| Robbery | 4 | 29.7 |
| Murder | 1 | 7.4 |
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 | 13,167 | 53.2 | 782.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 13,226 | 143.7 | 854.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,456 | 200.7 | 936.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,476 | 155.8 | 853.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,473 | 215.2 | 712.5 |
Bath Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bath Township's 125 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 Bath Township in population. Their populations run from 12,321 to 14,672, against 13,473 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bath Township sits at 215.2/100K violent (grade B); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Bath Township at 215.2/100K violent and 712.5/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
215.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
712.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Bath Township reported 29 violent crimes and 96 property crimes, for a total of 125 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bath Township's violent crime rate increased by 38.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.5%.
The most common crime type in Bath Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.2% of all reported crimes (74 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Bath Township 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 Bath Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bath Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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