Blackman Township, MI has a C safety grade (49/100) with a violent crime rate of 281 per 100,000, 20% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Blackman Township, MI Crime Rate & Safety
Blackman Township (39,091 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MI and national benchmarks.
Blackman Township, MI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 20% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Blackman Township, MI shows violent crime at 281.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,581.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% 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.
C safety grade
281.4/100K violent
2581.2/100K property
-20% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Blackman Township, MI
Comparable rate records
Blackman Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Blackman Township's 281.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Garden City (280.7), Covert Township (280.4), Cass City (282.5), Grand Ledge (282.7). 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
Blackman Township sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 281.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Blackman Township ranks 122 of 366 — above 244 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +50.5% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.8% of the 1,119 Part I offenses reported in Blackman Township for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 6.9 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 348.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 281.4 in 2024 (-19.2%). The highest observed value was 393.2 in 2021 and the lowest 192.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Blackman 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Blackman Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Blackman Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 1,119 offenses; mix index 6,050).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+46.6%
192 → 281.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
+4.5%
2470.8 → 2581.2/100K
Property offenses lead Blackman Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
1,009
2581.2
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
860
2200
-
Burglary
86
220
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
63
161.2
-
Arson
3
7.7
-
Violent Crime
110
281.4
431.4
Aggravated Assault
75
191.9
-
Rape
30
76.7
-
Murder
3
7.7
-
Robbery
2
5.1
-
Blackman Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Blackman Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Blackman Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Blackman Township NIBRS-participating
Blackman Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Blackman Township's 1,119 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
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How many crimes were reported in Blackman Township?
In 2024, Blackman Township reported 110 violent crimes and 1,009 property crimes, for a total of 1,119 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Blackman Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Blackman Township's violent crime rate increased by 46.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.5%.
What is the most common crime in Blackman Township?
The most common crime type in Blackman Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.9% of all reported crimes (860 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Blackman 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Blackman Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.