Burton, MI has a F safety grade (10/100) with a violent crime rate of 765 per 100,000, 117% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Burton (29,280 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
Burton, MI carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 117% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Burton, MI shows violent crime at 765 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,332.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 117% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 765.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Burton ranks 24 of 366 — above 342 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +309.2% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Burton's 765.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Harper Woods (774.6), Eastpointe (719.6), Wayne (692.7), Taylor (838.3). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 24.7% of the 907 Part I offenses reported in Burton for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 8.0 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 700.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 765.0 in 2024 (+9.3%). The highest observed value was 834.1 in 2022 and the lowest 700.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Burton'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.
Across 23.4 Census sq mi, Burton logged 29.2 property and 9.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Burton leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,742.
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Burton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (23.4 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 | 683 | 2332.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 508 | 1735 |
| Burglary | 97 | 331.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 78 | 266.4 |
| Arson | 3 | 10.2 |
| Violent Crime | 224 | 765 |
| Aggravated Assault | 183 | 625 |
| Rape | 22 | 75.1 |
| Robbery | 17 | 58.1 |
| Murder | 2 | 6.8 |
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 | 28,427 | 700 | 2311.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 28,319 | 755.7 | 2606 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 29,373 | 834.1 | 2550 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 29,343 | 831.5 | 3118.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 29,280 | 765 | 2332.7 |
Burton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Burton's 907 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 Burton in population. Their populations run from 28,188 to 30,866, against 29,280 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Burton sits at 765/100K violent (grade F); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Burton at 765/100K violent and 2,332.7/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
765/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,332.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Burton reported 224 violent crimes and 683 property crimes, for a total of 907 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Burton's violent crime rate decreased by 8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 25.2%.
The most common crime type in Burton is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.0% of all reported crimes (508 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Burton 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 Burton's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Burton, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Burton is scored in the mid-size municipal band (29,280 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.