Charlotte, MI is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 20% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Charlotte, MI shows violent crime at 422.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,875.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% above 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
422.7/100K violent
1875.1/100K property
+20% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Charlotte, MI
Comparable rate records
Charlotte's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Charlotte's 422.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Center Line (421.8), Yale (423.7), Menominee (418.6), Mount Pleasant (427.7). 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
Charlotte reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 422.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Charlotte ranks 72 of 366 — above 294 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +126.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 330.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 422.7 in 2024 (+28.1%). The highest observed value was 431.0 in 2021 and the lowest 270.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Charlotte'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.
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.
Charlotte's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 6.5 Census sq mi, Charlotte logged 26.8 property and 6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Charlotte's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 212 offenses; mix index 5,206).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.5 sq mi); 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
+56.3%
270.5 → 422.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
+8.3%
1731 → 1875.1/100K
Property offenses lead Charlotte's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
173
1875.1
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
149
1615
-
Burglary
13
140.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
11
119.2
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
39
422.7
431.4
Aggravated Assault
29
314.3
-
Rape
8
86.7
-
Robbery
2
21.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Charlotte Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Charlotte property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Charlotte: 423 violent, 1875 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Lapeer: 142 violent, 1671 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Alma: 504 violent, 965 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Plymouth: 55 violent, 968 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Greenville: 442 violent, 2487 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Saline: 211 violent, 1009 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Berrien Springs-Oronoko Township: 133 violent, 544 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Sumpter Township: 275 violent, 677 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Richfield Township, Genesee County: 67 violent, 538 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Charlotte Police Department
Reporting agency for Charlotte NIBRS-participating
Charlotte Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Charlotte's 212 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Michigan cities closest to Charlotte in population. Their populations run from 8,930 to 9,449, against 9,226 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Charlotte reported 39 violent crimes and 173 property crimes, for a total of 212 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Charlotte?
From 2023 to 2024, Charlotte's violent crime rate increased by 56.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 8.3%.
What is the most common crime in Charlotte?
The most common crime type in Charlotte is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.3% of all reported crimes (149 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Charlotte 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Charlotte, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.