Inkster, MI has a F safety grade (14/100) with a violent crime rate of 1075 per 100,000, 205% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Inkster (24,751 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
Inkster, MI carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 205% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Inkster, MI shows violent crime at 1,074.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,866.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 205% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 1074.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Inkster ranks 15 of 366 — above 351 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +474.8% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 36.5% of the 728 Part I offenses reported in Inkster for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 19.8 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Inkster's 1074.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Jackson (1061.8), Battle Creek (1121.6), Pontiac (984.7), Mount Morris Township (959.3). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 50.4% of reported property offenses in Inkster, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (107) and motor vehicle theft (122). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1332.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1074.7 in 2024 (-19.3%). The highest observed value was 1504.2 in 2021 and the lowest 1035.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Inkster'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 6.3 Census sq mi, Inkster logged 73.9 property and 42.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Inkster's 8 active offense types stay diversified (mix index 2,353); larceny-theft still leads at 32%.
Violent offenses are 37% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Inkster offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.3 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 | 462 | 1866.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 233 | 941.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 122 | 492.9 |
| Burglary | 107 | 432.3 |
| Arson | 5 | 20.2 |
| Violent Crime | 266 | 1074.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 206 | 832.3 |
| Robbery | 29 | 117.2 |
| Rape | 28 | 113.1 |
| Murder | 3 | 12.1 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 24,173 | 1332.1 | 2329 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 23,999 | 1504.2 | 1829.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 25,447 | 1108.2 | 1917.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 25,293 | 1035.9 | 2150.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 24,751 | 1074.7 | 1866.6 |
Inkster Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Inkster's 728 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 Inkster in population. Their populations run from 23,778 to 26,094, against 24,751 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Inkster sits at 1,074.7/100K violent (grade F); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Inkster at 1,074.7/100K violent and 1,866.6/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,074.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,866.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Inkster reported 266 violent crimes and 462 property crimes, for a total of 728 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Inkster's violent crime rate increased by 3.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.2%.
The most common crime type in Inkster is larceny-theft, accounting for 32.0% of all reported crimes (233 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Inkster 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 Inkster's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Inkster, 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. Inkster is scored in the mid-size municipal band (24,751 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.