Brandon Township, MI has a A+ safety grade (92/100) with a violent crime rate of 65 per 100,000, 81% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Brandon Township (15,308 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 2026-08-24
Brandon Township, MI carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 81% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brandon Township, MI shows violent crime at 65.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 169.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 81% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Brandon Township reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 15,308. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 142.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 65.3 in 2024 (-54.1%). The highest observed value was 157.0 in 2022 and the lowest 59.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brandon Township's 65.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Montrose Township (65.7), Manton (66.0), Potterville (64.4), Corunna (66.3). 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 65.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brandon Township ranks 283 of 366 — above 83 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -65.3% against the cohort median of 188.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 27.8% of the 36 Part I offenses reported in Brandon Township for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 11.1 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 61.5% of reported property offenses in Brandon Township, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (5) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Brandon 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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 15,308. 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.
Brandon Township leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,894.
Violent offenses are 28% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Brandon 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 | 26 | 169.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 16 | 104.5 |
| Burglary | 5 | 32.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 32.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 6.5 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 65.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 52.3 |
| Rape | 2 | 13.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 16,161 | 142.3 | 191.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 16,093 | 80.8 | 124.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 15,284 | 157 | 176.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 15,255 | 59 | 196.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,308 | 65.3 | 169.8 |
Brandon Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brandon Township's 36 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 Brandon Township in population. Their populations run from 14,672 to 15,665, against 15,308 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Brandon Township sits at 65.3/100K violent (grade A+); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Brandon Township at 65.3/100K violent and 169.8/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
65.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
169.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Brandon Township reported 10 violent crimes and 26 property crimes, for a total of 36 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Brandon Township's violent crime rate increased by 10.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.7%.
The most common crime type in Brandon Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.4% of all reported crimes (16 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Brandon 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 Brandon Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brandon Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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