Greenville, MI carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 26% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Greenville, MI shows violent crime at 442.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,487 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 26% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
442.1/100K violent
2487/100K property
+26% vs U.S.
The verdict
Greenville earns a D safety grade: violent crime runs 26% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
D
PlainCrime safety grade
+26%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
17th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,487
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Greenville, MI
Comparable rate records
Greenville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Greenville's 442.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are St. Joseph (442.2), Clinton (444.4), Coloma Township (439.1), Southgate (446.0). 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
Greenville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 442.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Greenville ranks 68 of 366 — above 298 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +136.5% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 94.2% of reported property offenses in Greenville, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (8) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 487.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 442.1 in 2024 (-9.3%). The highest observed value was 487.2 in 2020 and the lowest 385.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Greenville'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.
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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+23.3%
2017 → 2487/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+14.6%
385.8 → 442.1/100K
Property offenses lead Greenville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
225
2487
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
212
2343.3
-
Burglary
8
88.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
5
55.3
-
Arson
1
11.1
-
Violent Crime
40
442.1
431.4
Aggravated Assault
26
287.4
-
Rape
14
154.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Greenville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Greenville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
2,487/100K↑23.3%vs 2023
Greenville violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
442.1/100K↑14.6%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
8,415
487.2
3850.3
365
2021
Comparable
8,378
393.9
2506.6
243
2022
Comparable
9,303
473
2278.8
256
2023
Comparable
9,073
385.8
2017
218
2024
Comparable
9,047
442.1
2487
265
How Greenville sits among MI peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Greenville Police Department NIBRS-participating
Greenville's crime figures on this page originate from Greenville 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 Greenville in population. Their populations run from 8,804 to 9,329, against 9,047 here. Or use our
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These Michigan cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Greenville's 442.1/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Greenville has a violent crime rate of 442.1 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2487 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Greenville, MI safe? ▼
Greenville receives a safety grade of D (Below Average), with a safety score of 34/100. The violent crime rate is 26% above the national average and 2% above the Michigan average.
What is the population of Greenville, MI? ▼
The reporting population for Greenville is 9,047 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Greenville? ▼
In 2024, Greenville reported 40 violent crimes and 225 property crimes, for a total of 265 reported offenses.
How do Greenville's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Greenville recorded about one reported offense per 34 residents and one reported violent offense per 226 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Greenville? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Greenville's violent crime rate increased by 14.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 23.3%.
What is the most common crime in Greenville? ▼
The most common crime type in Greenville is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.0% of all reported crimes (212 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Greenville 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Greenville, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.