Flint, MI has a F safety grade (18/100) with a violent crime rate of 1258 per 100,000, 257% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 79,183 residents, Flint 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 2026-09-05
Flint, MI is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 257% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Flint, MI shows violent crime at 1,257.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,312.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 257% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 48.9% of the 2,035 Part I offenses reported in Flint for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 32.2 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 1257.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Flint ranks 12 of 366 — above 354 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +572.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Flint's 1257.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kalamazoo (1283.5), Bangor (1220.8), Albion (1317.2), Manistique (1325.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 55.8% of reported property offenses in Flint, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (220) and motor vehicle theft (239). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1222.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1257.8 in 2024 (+2.9%). The highest observed value was 1427.4 in 2023 and the lowest 1077.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Flint's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters 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 33.4 Census sq mi, Flint logged 31.1 property and 29.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Flint leans on aggravated assault at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,954.
Violent offenses are 49% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a large city.
Flint offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (33.4 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 | 1,039 | 1312.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 580 | 732.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 239 | 301.8 |
| Burglary | 220 | 277.8 |
| Arson | 16 | 20.2 |
| Violent Crime | 996 | 1257.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 881 | 1112.6 |
| Robbery | 48 | 60.6 |
| Rape | 47 | 59.4 |
| Murder | 20 | 25.3 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 94,842 | 1222 | 1875.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 94,290 | 1077.5 | 967.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 80,059 | 1241.6 | 1350.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 79,234 | 1427.4 | 1748 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 79,183 | 1257.8 | 1312.2 |
Flint Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Flint's 2,035 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 Flint in population. Their populations run from 73,002 to 87,422, against 79,183 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Flint sits at 1,257.8/100K violent (grade F); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Flint at 1,257.8/100K violent and 1,312.2/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,257.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,312.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-11.9% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Flint reported 996 violent crimes and 1,039 property crimes, for a total of 2,035 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Flint's violent crime rate decreased by 11.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 24.9%.
The most common crime type in Flint is aggravated assault, accounting for 43.3% of all reported crimes (881 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Flint'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 Flint's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Flint, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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