Chesterfield Township, MI has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 114 per 100,000, 68% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Chesterfield Township, MI Crime Rate & Safety
Chesterfield Township (45,674 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MI and national benchmarks.
Chesterfield Township, MI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 68% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chesterfield Township, MI shows violent crime at 113.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,046.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 68% 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.
A safety grade
113.9/100K violent
1046.5/100K property
-68% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Chesterfield Township, MI
Comparable rate records
Chesterfield Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Chesterfield Township's 113.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bloomfield Hills (114.8), Woodhaven (112.5), Hampton Township (115.4), Troy (115.5). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 170.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 113.9 in 2024 (-33.0%). The highest observed value was 202.1 in 2022 and the lowest 113.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Chesterfield Township sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 113.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chesterfield Township ranks 240 of 366 — above 126 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -39.5% 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.8% of the 530 Part I offenses reported in Chesterfield Township for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 7.0 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 88.7% of reported property offenses in Chesterfield Township, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (22) and motor vehicle theft (32). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Chesterfield 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.
Chesterfield Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Chesterfield Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 530 offenses; mix index 6,511).
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.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-3.6%
118.1 → 113.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
+3.6%
1010.1 → 1046.5/100K
Property offenses lead Chesterfield Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
478
1046.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
424
928.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
32
70.1
-
Burglary
22
48.2
-
Arson
1
2.2
-
Violent Crime
52
113.9
352
Aggravated Assault
38
83.2
-
Rape
13
28.5
-
Robbery
1
2.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
Chesterfield Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Chesterfield Township 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 averages
Chesterfield Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Chesterfield Township NIBRS-participating
Chesterfield Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Chesterfield Township's 530 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 Chesterfield Township in population. Their populations run from 42,712 to 50,472, against 45,674 here. Or use our
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How many crimes were reported in Chesterfield Township?
In 2024, Chesterfield Township reported 52 violent crimes and 478 property crimes, for a total of 530 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Chesterfield Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Chesterfield Township's violent crime rate decreased by 3.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.6%.
What is the most common crime in Chesterfield Township?
The most common crime type in Chesterfield Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.0% of all reported crimes (424 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.