Harper Woods, MI is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 120% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Harper Woods, MI shows violent crime at 774.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,267.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 120% 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
774.6/100K violent
4267.2/100K property
+120% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Harper Woods, MI
Position in the state cohort
Harper Woods reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 774.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Harper Woods ranks 23 of 366 — above 343 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +314.3% 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
Harper Woods's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Harper Woods's 774.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Burton (765.0), Eastpointe (719.6), Taylor (838.3), Wayne (692.7). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1060.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 774.6 in 2024 (-26.9%). The highest observed value was 1060.0 in 2020 and the lowest 572.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 58.0% of reported property offenses in Harper Woods, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (48) and motor vehicle theft (216). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Harper Woods'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.
Harper Woods's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.6 Census sq mi, Harper Woods logged 238.9 property and 43.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Harper Woods leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,465.
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+35.4%
572.2 → 774.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.2%
4697.6 → 4267.2/100K
Property offenses lead Harper Woods's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
vs US avg
Property Crime
628
4267.2
1395.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
364
2473.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
216
1467.7
-
-
Burglary
48
326.2
-
-
Arson
7
47.6
-
-
Violent Crime
114
774.6
431.4
352
Aggravated Assault
95
645.5
-
-
Robbery
14
95.1
-
-
Rape
4
27.2
-
-
Murder
1
6.8
-
-
Harper Woods Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Harper Woods property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Harper Woods: 775 violent, 4267 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Springfield Township: 27 violent, 393 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Coldwater: 239 violent, 1343 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Hazel Park: 203 violent, 1666 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Berkley: 34 violent, 343 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Lincoln Township: 141 violent, 841 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Owosso: 564 violent, 1073 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Fraser: 237 violent, 1944 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Brandon Township: 65 violent, 170 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Harper Woods Police Department
Reporting agency for Harper Woods NIBRS-participating
Harper Woods Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Harper Woods's 742 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Michigan
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Michigan cities closest to Harper Woods in population. Their populations run from 14,350 to 15,308, against 14,717 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Harper Woods reported 114 violent crimes and 628 property crimes, for a total of 742 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Harper Woods?
From 2023 to 2024, Harper Woods's violent crime rate increased by 35.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.2%.
What is the most common crime in Harper Woods?
The most common crime type in Harper Woods is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.1% of all reported crimes (364 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Harper Woods 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Harper Woods, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.