Dearborn Heights, MI has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 459 per 100,000, 30% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Dearborn Heights, MI Crime Rate & Safety
At 60,148 residents, Dearborn Heights 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.
Dearborn Heights, MI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 30% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dearborn Heights, MI shows violent crime at 458.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,238.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 30% 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
458.9/100K violent
1238.6/100K property
+30% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Dearborn Heights, MI
Comparable rate records
Dearborn Heights's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Dearborn Heights's 458.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bridgeport Township (457.3), St. Charles (463.2), Westland (449.1), Cadillac (468.9). 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
Dearborn Heights reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 458.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dearborn Heights ranks 62 of 366 — above 304 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +145.4% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 27.0% of the 1,021 Part I offenses reported in Dearborn Heights for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 10.3 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 61.2% of reported property offenses in Dearborn Heights, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (101) and motor vehicle theft (188). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 533.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 458.9 in 2024 (-14.0%). The highest observed value was 556.9 in 2021 and the lowest 423.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Dearborn Heights'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.
Dearborn Heights's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.7 Census sq mi, Dearborn Heights logged 63.5 property and 23.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dearborn Heights leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,962.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-23.6%
1621.6 → 1238.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+8.4%
423.3 → 458.9/100K
Property offenses lead Dearborn Heights's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
745
1238.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
456
758.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
188
312.6
-
Burglary
101
167.9
-
Arson
6
10
-
Violent Crime
276
458.9
352
Aggravated Assault
233
387.4
-
Robbery
29
48.2
-
Rape
13
21.6
-
Murder
1
1.7
-
Dearborn Heights Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Dearborn Heights property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Dearborn Heights Police Department
Reporting agency for Dearborn Heights NIBRS-participating
Dearborn Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Dearborn Heights's 1,021 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 Dearborn Heights in population. Their populations run from 53,891 to 66,366, against 60,148 here. Or use our
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How many crimes were reported in Dearborn Heights?
In 2024, Dearborn Heights reported 276 violent crimes and 745 property crimes, for a total of 1,021 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Dearborn Heights?
From 2023 to 2024, Dearborn Heights's violent crime rate increased by 8.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.6%.
What is the most common crime in Dearborn Heights?
The most common crime type in Dearborn Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.7% of all reported crimes (456 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Dearborn Heights'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 Dearborn Heights, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.