Independence Township, MI has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 103 per 100,000, 71% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Independence Township (37,059 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
Independence Township, MI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 71% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Independence Township, MI shows violent crime at 102.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 323.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 53.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 102.5 in 2024 (+91.2%). The highest observed value was 102.5 in 2024 and the lowest 53.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Independence Township's 102.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gibraltar (103.4), Grayling (101.1), Dryden Township (104.1), Milan (100.2). 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 102.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Independence Township ranks 249 of 366 — above 117 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -45.5% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 24.1% of the 158 Part I offenses reported in Independence Township for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 7.3 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 Independence 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Independence Township leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,829.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Independence 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 | 120 | 323.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 90 | 242.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 18 | 48.6 |
| Burglary | 12 | 32.4 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 102.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 83.7 |
| Rape | 5 | 13.5 |
| Robbery | 2 | 5.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 37,302 | 53.6 | 356.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 37,200 | 59.1 | 325.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 36,584 | 101.1 | 609.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 36,558 | 93 | 558 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 37,059 | 102.5 | 323.8 |
Independence Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Independence Township's 158 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 Independence Township in population. Their populations run from 33,492 to 39,880, against 37,059 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Independence Township sits at 102.5/100K violent (grade A); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Independence Township at 102.5/100K violent and 323.8/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
102.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
323.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+10.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Independence Township reported 38 violent crimes and 120 property crimes, for a total of 158 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Independence Township's violent crime rate increased by 10.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 42%.
The most common crime type in Independence Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.0% of all reported crimes (90 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Independence 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 Independence Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Independence 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. Independence Township is scored in the mid-size municipal band (37,059 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.