Grand Rapids, MI has a F safety grade (8/100) with a violent crime rate of 910 per 100,000, 159% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Grand Rapids, MI Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
At 195,913 residents, Grand Rapids 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.
Grand Rapids, MI carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 159% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Grand Rapids, MI shows violent crime at 910.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,480.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 159% 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.
F safety grade
910.1/100K violent
2480.7/100K property
+159% vs U.S.
The verdict
Grand Rapids earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 159% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
F
PlainCrime safety grade
+159%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
4th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,480.7
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Grand Rapids, MI
Position in the state cohort
Grand Rapids reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 910.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Grand Rapids ranks 20 of 366 — above 346 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +386.8% 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
Grand Rapids's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Grand Rapids's 910.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Flint Township (930.1), Romulus (879.2), Mount Morris Township (959.3), Taylor (838.3). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 26.8% of the 6,643 Part I offenses reported in Grand Rapids for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 10.1 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 963.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 910.1 in 2024 (-5.5%). The highest observed value was 988.7 in 2021 and the lowest 882.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Grand Rapids'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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-19.4%
3078.8 → 2480.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+3.1%
882.6 → 910.1/100K
Property offenses lead Grand Rapids's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
4,860
2480.7
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
3,583
1828.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
753
384.4
-
Burglary
524
267.5
-
Arson
50
25.5
-
Violent Crime
1,783
910.1
431.4
Aggravated Assault
1,367
697.8
-
Robbery
228
116.4
-
Rape
176
89.8
-
Murder
12
6.1
-
Grand Rapids Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Grand Rapids property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
2,480.7/100K↓19.4%vs 2023
Grand Rapids violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
910.1/100K↑3.1%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
202,513
963.4
2922.3
7,869
2021
Comparable
201,280
988.7
2589.9
7,203
2022
Comparable
196,662
978.8
3035.7
7,895
2023
Comparable
196,019
882.6
3078.8
7,765
2024
Comparable
195,913
910.1
2480.7
6,643
How Grand Rapids sits among MI peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Grand Rapids Police Department NIBRS-participating
Grand Rapids's crime figures on this page originate from Grand Rapids Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Grand Rapids in population. Their populations run from 91,189 to 135,843, against 195,913 here. Or use our
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These Michigan cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Grand Rapids's 910.1/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Grand Rapids has a violent crime rate of 910.1 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2480.7 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Grand Rapids, MI safe? ▼
Grand Rapids receives a safety grade of F (High Risk), with a safety score of 8/100. The violent crime rate is 159% above the national average and 111% above the Michigan average.
What is the population of Grand Rapids, MI? ▼
The reporting population for Grand Rapids is 195,913 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Grand Rapids? ▼
In 2024, Grand Rapids reported 1,783 violent crimes and 4,860 property crimes, for a total of 6,643 reported offenses.
How do Grand Rapids's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Grand Rapids recorded about one reported offense per 29 residents and one reported violent offense per 110 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Grand Rapids? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Grand Rapids's violent crime rate increased by 3.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.4%.
What is the most common crime in Grand Rapids? ▼
The most common crime type in Grand Rapids is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.9% of all reported crimes (3,583 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Grand Rapids'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 Grand Rapids, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.