Carrollton Township, MI has a D safety grade (38/100) with a violent crime rate of 556 per 100,000, 58% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Carrollton Township is a small municipal reporter (5,574 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MI and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Carrollton Township, MI is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 58% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Carrollton Township, MI shows violent crime at 556.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 735.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 58% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 43.1% of the 72 Part I offenses reported in Carrollton Township for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 26.4 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 556.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Carrollton Township ranks 43 of 366 — above 323 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +197.5% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Carrollton Township's 556.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mount Morris (553.9), Owosso (563.8), Bay City (564.1), Watervliet (547.1). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 446.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 556.2 in 2024 (+24.6%). The highest observed value was 557.6 in 2021 and the lowest 392.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 65.9% of reported property offenses in Carrollton Township, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (10) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Carrollton Township's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Carrollton Township leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,894.
Violent offenses are 43% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Carrollton 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 | 41 | 735.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 27 | 484.4 |
| Burglary | 10 | 179.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 71.8 |
| Arson | 2 | 35.9 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 556.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 | 448.5 |
| Rape | 5 | 89.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 17.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,599 | 446.5 | 1071.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,560 | 557.6 | 755.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,669 | 476.3 | 1146.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,605 | 392.5 | 1016.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,574 | 556.2 | 735.6 |
Carrollton Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Carrollton Township's 72 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 Carrollton Township in population. Their populations run from 5,232 to 5,839, against 5,574 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Carrollton Township sits at 556.2/100K violent (grade D); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Carrollton Township reported 31 violent crimes and 41 property crimes, for a total of 72 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Carrollton Township's violent crime rate increased by 41.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 27.7%.
The most common crime type in Carrollton Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 37.5% of all reported crimes (27 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Carrollton Township is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Carrollton Township's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Carrollton Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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