Hazel Park, MI has a B safety grade (65/100) with a violent crime rate of 203 per 100,000, 42% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hazel Park (14,763 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
Hazel Park, MI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 42% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hazel Park, MI shows violent crime at 203.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,666.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 42% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B 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 Hazel Park's 203.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Riverview (203.0), Clio (203.7), Ironwood (202.7), Ferndale (204.8). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 10.9% of the 276 Part I offenses reported in Hazel Park for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 5.9 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 203.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hazel Park ranks 172 of 366 — above 194 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +8.7% 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 202.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 203.2 in 2024 (+0.6%). The highest observed value was 439.6 in 2023 and the lowest 202.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Hazel Park'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.
Across 2.8 Census sq mi, Hazel Park logged 87.3 property and 10.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hazel Park's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 276 offenses; mix index 4,625).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Hazel Park offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.8 sq mi); 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 | 246 | 1666.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 180 | 1219.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 41 | 277.7 |
| Burglary | 25 | 169.3 |
| Arson | 1 | 6.8 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 203.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 149 |
| Robbery | 6 | 40.6 |
| Rape | 2 | 13.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 16,340 | 202 | 1315.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 16,189 | 290.3 | 1396 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 14,849 | 276.1 | 1717.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 14,787 | 439.6 | 2015.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,763 | 203.2 | 1666.3 |
Hazel Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hazel Park's 276 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 Hazel Park in population. Their populations run from 14,350 to 15,308, against 14,763 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hazel Park sits at 203.2/100K violent (grade B); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hazel Park at 203.2/100K violent and 1,666.3/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
203.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,666.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Hazel Park reported 30 violent crimes and 246 property crimes, for a total of 276 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hazel Park's violent crime rate decreased by 53.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.3%.
The most common crime type in Hazel Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.2% of all reported crimes (180 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hazel Park 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 Hazel Park's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hazel Park, 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. Hazel Park is scored in the mid-size municipal band (14,763 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.