Clinton Township, MI has a C safety grade (56/100) with a violent crime rate of 320 per 100,000, 9% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Clinton Township, MI Crime Rate & Safety
At 99,056 residents, Clinton Township is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MI and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Clinton Township, MI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 9% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Clinton Township, MI shows violent crime at 320 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,429.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 9% below 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
320/100K violent
1429.5/100K property
-9% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Clinton Township, MI
Comparable rate records
Clinton Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Clinton Township's 320.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lexington (322.6), Coleman (314.5), Utica (314.3), Flat Rock (313.2). 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
Clinton Township sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 320.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Clinton Township ranks 106 of 366 — above 260 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +71.2% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 389.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 320.0 in 2024 (-17.8%). The highest observed value was 389.6 in 2020 and the lowest 279.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Clinton 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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Clinton Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Clinton Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 1,733 offenses; mix index 4,084).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+14.4%
279.8 → 320/100K
Property Crime Rate
-11.8%
1621 → 1429.5/100K
Property offenses lead Clinton Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,416
1429.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,044
1053.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
253
255.4
-
Burglary
119
120.1
-
Arson
12
12.1
-
Violent Crime
317
320
352
Aggravated Assault
233
235.2
-
Rape
60
60.6
-
Robbery
20
20.2
-
Murder
4
4
-
Clinton Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Clinton 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
Clinton Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Clinton Township NIBRS-participating
Clinton Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Clinton Township's 1,733 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 Clinton Township in population. Their populations run from 81,727 to 118,025, against 99,056 here. Or use our
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Clinton Township at 320/100K violent and 1,429.5/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Clinton Township?
In 2024, Clinton Township reported 317 violent crimes and 1,416 property crimes, for a total of 1,733 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Clinton Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Clinton Township's violent crime rate increased by 14.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.8%.
What is the most common crime in Clinton Township?
The most common crime type in Clinton Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.2% of all reported crimes (1,044 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Clinton Township's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Clinton Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.