Flat Rock, MI is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 11% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Flat Rock, MI shows violent crime at 313.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 969.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 11% 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.
B safety grade
313.2/100K violent
969.1/100K property
-11% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Flat Rock, MI
Comparable rate records
Flat Rock's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Flat Rock's 313.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Utica (314.3), Coleman (314.5), Belleville (309.8), Clinton Township (320.0). 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
Flat Rock sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 313.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Flat Rock ranks 109 of 366 — above 257 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +67.5% 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
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 24.4% of the 131 Part I offenses reported in Flat Rock for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 7.7 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 269.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 313.2 in 2024 (+16.2%). The highest observed value was 395.4 in 2022 and the lowest 260.1 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Flat Rock'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.
Flat Rock's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 6.6 Census sq mi, Flat Rock logged 15.1 property and 4.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Flat Rock's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 131 offenses; mix index 4,164).
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.6 sq mi); 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
+20.4%
260.1 → 313.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-10.2%
1079.1 → 969.1/100K
Property offenses lead Flat Rock's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
99
969.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
77
753.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
186
-
Burglary
3
29.4
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
32
313.2
352
Aggravated Assault
29
283.9
-
Rape
2
19.6
-
Robbery
1
9.8
-
Murder
0
0
-
Flat Rock Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Flat Rock 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Flat Rock: 313 violent, 969 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Grosse Ile Township: 19 violent, 243 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Alpena: 514 violent, 989 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Beverly Hills: 48 violent, 494 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Howell: 110 violent, 641 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Cadillac: 469 violent, 2459 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Flushing Township: 67 violent, 295 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Marysville: 152 violent, 516 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Bridgeport Township: 457 violent, 1016 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Flat Rock Police Department
Reporting agency for Flat Rock NIBRS-participating
Flat Rock Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Flat Rock's 131 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 Flat Rock in population. Their populations run from 9,840 to 10,502, against 10,216 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Flat Rock reported 32 violent crimes and 99 property crimes, for a total of 131 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Flat Rock?
From 2023 to 2024, Flat Rock's violent crime rate increased by 20.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.2%.
What is the most common crime in Flat Rock?
The most common crime type in Flat Rock is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.8% of all reported crimes (77 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Flat Rock 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 Flat Rock, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.