Farmington Hills, MI has a B safety grade (74/100) with a violent crime rate of 199 per 100,000, 44% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 82,116 residents, Farmington Hills 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Farmington Hills, MI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 44% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Farmington Hills, MI shows violent crime at 198.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 680.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 101.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 198.5 in 2024 (+95.4%). The highest observed value was 198.5 in 2024 and the lowest 101.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Farmington Hills's 198.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Davison (198.8), Clawson (197.9), Hancock (199.3), Lowell (195.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.6% of the 722 Part I offenses reported in Farmington Hills for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 5.9 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 is 70.8% of reported property offenses in Farmington Hills, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (71) and motor vehicle theft (92). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 198.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Farmington Hills ranks 177 of 366 — above 189 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +6.2% 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.
Property counts dominate Farmington Hills'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.
Across 33.3 Census sq mi, Farmington Hills logged 16.8 property and 4.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Farmington Hills leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,629.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Farmington Hills offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (33.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 559 | 680.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 396 | 482.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 92 | 112 |
| Burglary | 71 | 86.5 |
| Arson | 4 | 4.9 |
| Violent Crime | 163 | 198.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 136 | 165.6 |
| Rape | 16 | 19.5 |
| Robbery | 10 | 12.2 |
| Murder | 1 | 1.2 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 80,708 | 101.6 | 702.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 80,044 | 157.4 | 767.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 82,806 | 153.4 | 1167.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 82,223 | 158.1 | 1138.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 82,116 | 198.5 | 680.7 |
Farmington Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Farmington Hills's 722 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Michigan cities closest to Farmington Hills in population. Their populations run from 75,454 to 91,189, against 82,116 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Farmington Hills sits at 198.5/100K violent (grade B); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Farmington Hills at 198.5/100K violent and 680.7/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
198.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
680.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+25.6% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Farmington Hills reported 163 violent crimes and 559 property crimes, for a total of 722 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Farmington Hills's violent crime rate increased by 25.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 40.2%.
The most common crime type in Farmington Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.8% of all reported crimes (396 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Farmington Hills'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Farmington Hills's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Farmington Hills, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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