Dearborn, MI has a C safety grade (53/100) with a violent crime rate of 293 per 100,000, 17% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Dearborn, MI Crime Rate & Safety
At 104,571 residents, Dearborn 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, MI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 17% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dearborn, MI shows violent crime at 292.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,999.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% 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
292.6/100K violent
1999.6/100K property
-17% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Dearborn, MI
Comparable rate records
Dearborn's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Dearborn's 292.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Millington (295.9), Lawrence (297.0), Hillsdale (288.0), Lake Orion (284.1). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Dearborn sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 292.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dearborn ranks 117 of 366 — above 249 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +56.5% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 12.8% of the 2,397 Part I offenses reported in Dearborn for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 4.0 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 71.2% of reported property offenses in Dearborn, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (118) and motor vehicle theft (485). 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 304.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 292.6 in 2024 (-4.0%). The highest observed value was 375.6 in 2021 and the lowest 281.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Dearborn'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's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 24.2 Census sq mi, Dearborn logged 86.2 property and 12.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dearborn's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 2,397 offenses; mix index 4,392).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (24.2 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
-8%
2173.4 → 1999.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-3%
301.6 → 292.6/100K
Property offenses lead Dearborn's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
2,091
1999.6
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
1,488
1423
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
485
463.8
-
Burglary
118
112.8
-
Arson
16
15.3
-
Violent Crime
306
292.6
431.4
Aggravated Assault
240
229.5
-
Robbery
38
36.3
-
Rape
27
25.8
-
Murder
1
1
-
Dearborn Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Dearborn 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
Dearborn Police Department
Reporting agency for Dearborn NIBRS-participating
Dearborn Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Dearborn's 2,397 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 in population. Their populations run from 81,727 to 118,025, against 104,571 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Dearborn reported 306 violent crimes and 2,091 property crimes, for a total of 2,397 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Dearborn?
From 2023 to 2024, Dearborn's violent crime rate decreased by 3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8%.
What is the most common crime in Dearborn?
The most common crime type in Dearborn is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.1% of all reported crimes (1,488 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Dearborn'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, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.