Hamtramck, MI has a D safety grade (37/100) with a violent crime rate of 489 per 100,000, 39% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hamtramck (27,014 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
Hamtramck, MI carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 39% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hamtramck, MI shows violent crime at 488.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,595.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 39% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hamtramck's 488.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Southfield (493.0), Gaylord (499.8), Niles (475.5), Reed City (473.9). 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 488.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hamtramck ranks 55 of 366 — above 311 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +161.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 841.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 488.6 in 2024 (-41.9%). The highest observed value was 1007.2 in 2021 and the lowest 488.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 53.4% of reported property offenses in Hamtramck, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (55) and motor vehicle theft (146). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.4% of the 563 Part I offenses reported in Hamtramck for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 6.7 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.
Property counts dominate Hamtramck'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Hamtramck leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,796.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hamtramck 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 | 431 | 1595.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 230 | 851.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 146 | 540.5 |
| Burglary | 55 | 203.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.7 |
| Violent Crime | 132 | 488.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 104 | 385 |
| Robbery | 23 | 85.1 |
| Rape | 5 | 18.5 |
| Murder | 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 | 21,514 | 841.3 | 1506 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 21,346 | 1007.2 | 1583.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 27,669 | 661.4 | 1586.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 27,581 | 645.4 | 1907.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 27,014 | 488.6 | 1595.5 |
Hamtramck Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hamtramck's 563 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 Hamtramck in population. Their populations run from 26,008 to 28,702, against 27,014 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hamtramck sits at 488.6/100K violent (grade D); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hamtramck at 488.6/100K violent and 1,595.5/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
488.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,595.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-24.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Hamtramck reported 132 violent crimes and 431 property crimes, for a total of 563 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hamtramck's violent crime rate decreased by 24.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.3%.
The most common crime type in Hamtramck is larceny-theft, accounting for 40.9% of all reported crimes (230 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hamtramck 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 Hamtramck's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hamtramck, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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