Kalamazoo Township, MI has a F safety grade (24/100) with a violent crime rate of 510 per 100,000, 45% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Kalamazoo Township, MI Crime Rate & Safety
Kalamazoo Township (24,299 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MI and national benchmarks.
Kalamazoo Township, MI carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 45% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kalamazoo Township, MI shows violent crime at 510.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,860.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 45% 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
510.3/100K violent
2860.2/100K property
+45% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Kalamazoo Township, MI
Position in the state cohort
Kalamazoo Township reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 510.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kalamazoo Township ranks 51 of 366 — above 315 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +173.0% 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
Kalamazoo Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Kalamazoo Township's 510.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Alpena (514.4), Alma (503.8), Gaylord (499.8), Roseville (522.0). 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 68.6% of reported property offenses in Kalamazoo Township, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (85) and motor vehicle theft (133). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 529.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 510.3 in 2024 (-3.6%). The highest observed value was 761.0 in 2022 and the lowest 510.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Kalamazoo 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.
Kalamazoo Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Kalamazoo Township leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,908.
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-29.2%
720.3 → 510.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-10.9%
3210.7 → 2860.2/100K
Property offenses lead Kalamazoo Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
695
2860.2
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
477
1963
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
133
547.3
-
Burglary
85
349.8
-
Arson
4
16.5
-
Violent Crime
124
510.3
431.4
Aggravated Assault
96
395.1
-
Robbery
19
78.2
-
Rape
9
37
-
Murder
0
0
-
Kalamazoo Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Kalamazoo Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Kalamazoo Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Kalamazoo Township NIBRS-participating
Kalamazoo Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kalamazoo Township's 819 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 Kalamazoo Township in population. Their populations run from 23,778 to 26,094, against 24,299 here. Or use our
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How many crimes were reported in Kalamazoo Township?
In 2024, Kalamazoo Township reported 124 violent crimes and 695 property crimes, for a total of 819 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Kalamazoo Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Kalamazoo Township's violent crime rate decreased by 29.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.9%.
What is the most common crime in Kalamazoo Township?
The most common crime type in Kalamazoo Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.2% of all reported crimes (477 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Kalamazoo 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kalamazoo Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.