Hamburg Township, MI has a A+ safety grade (95/100) with a violent crime rate of 38 per 100,000, 89% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hamburg Township (21,143 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MI and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Hamburg Township, MI carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 89% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hamburg Township, MI shows violent crime at 37.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 184.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 89% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Hamburg Township reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 21,143. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 37.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hamburg Township ranks 318 of 366 — above 48 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -79.9% against the cohort median of 188.3. 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 Hamburg Township's 37.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gladstone (38.2), Bloomfield Township (36.7), Orion Township (36.3), Grosse Pointe Shores (39.8). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 45.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 37.8 in 2024 (-17.3%). The highest observed value was 74.4 in 2022 and the lowest 32.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Hamburg Township'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 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 21,143. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Hamburg Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 47 offenses; mix index 5,464).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hamburg Township offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 39 | 184.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 34 | 160.8 |
| Burglary | 4 | 18.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 4.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 8 | 37.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 23.6 |
| Rape | 3 | 14.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 21,867 | 45.7 | 150.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 21,904 | 32 | 164.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,515 | 74.4 | 153.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,392 | 60.8 | 116.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,143 | 37.8 | 184.5 |
Hamburg Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hamburg Township's 47 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 Hamburg Township in population. Their populations run from 20,129 to 21,326, against 21,143 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hamburg Township sits at 37.8/100K violent (grade A+); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hamburg Township at 37.8/100K violent and 184.5/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
37.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
184.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Hamburg Township reported 8 violent crimes and 39 property crimes, for a total of 47 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hamburg Township's violent crime rate decreased by 37.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 57.8%.
The most common crime type in Hamburg Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.3% of all reported crimes (34 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hamburg Township 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Hamburg Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hamburg Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Hamburg Township is scored in the mid-size municipal band (21,143 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.