Grand Ledge, MI has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 283 per 100,000, 20% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Grand Ledge is a small municipal reporter (7,781 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MI and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Grand Ledge, MI is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 20% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Grand Ledge, MI shows violent crime at 282.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 424.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% 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 113.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 282.7 in 2024 (+148.4%). The highest observed value was 282.7 in 2024 and the lowest 50.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Grand Ledge reported 22 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 7,781. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 40.0% of the 55 Part I offenses reported in Grand Ledge for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 23.3 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Grand Ledge's 282.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cass City (282.5), Blackman Township (281.4), Lake Orion (284.1), Garden City (280.7). 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
At 282.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Grand Ledge ranks 120 of 366 — above 246 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +51.2% 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 Grand Ledge'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.
Based on 22 reported violent incidents in a population of 7,781. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 3.9 Census sq mi, Grand Ledge logged 8.5 property and 5.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Grand Ledge leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,157.
Violent offenses are 40% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Grand Ledge offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.9 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 | 33 | 424.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 26 | 334.1 |
| Burglary | 4 | 51.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 38.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 22 | 282.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 15 | 192.8 |
| Rape | 5 | 64.3 |
| Robbery | 2 | 25.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 7,908 | 113.8 | 822 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,891 | 50.7 | 849.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,778 | 77.1 | 617.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,795 | 102.6 | 423.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,781 | 282.7 | 424.1 |
Grand Ledge Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Grand Ledge's 55 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 Grand Ledge in population. Their populations run from 7,582 to 7,986, against 7,781 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Grand Ledge sits at 282.7/100K violent (grade B); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Grand Ledge reported 22 violent crimes and 33 property crimes, for a total of 55 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Grand Ledge's violent crime rate increased by 175.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.2%.
The most common crime type in Grand Ledge is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.3% of all reported crimes (26 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Grand Ledge is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Grand Ledge's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Grand Ledge, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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