Lake Orion, MI has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 284 per 100,000, 19% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lake Orion is a small municipal reporter (2,816 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MI and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Lake Orion, MI is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 19% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lake Orion, MI shows violent crime at 284.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 284.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 50.0% of the 16 Part I offenses reported in Lake Orion for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 33.3 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.
Small-count caution
Lake Orion reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,816. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 156.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 284.1 in 2024 (+82.2%). The highest observed value was 284.1 in 2024 and the lowest 68.9 in 2022. 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 Lake Orion's 284.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Grand Ledge (282.7), Cass City (282.5), Blackman Township (281.4), Garden City (280.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 284.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lake Orion ranks 119 of 366 — above 247 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +52.0% 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.
Lake Orion's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,816. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 0.8 Census sq mi, Lake Orion logged 10.1 property and 10.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lake Orion leans on aggravated assault at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,438.
Violent offenses are 50% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Lake Orion offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.8 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 | 8 | 284.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 6 | 213.1 |
| Burglary | 1 | 35.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 35.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 8 | 284.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 248.6 |
| Rape | 1 | 35.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,206 | 156 | 467.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,207 | 187.1 | 436.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,904 | 68.9 | 723.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,873 | 139.2 | 382.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,816 | 284.1 | 284.1 |
Lake Orion Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lake Orion's 16 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 Lake Orion in population. Their populations run from 2,714 to 2,927, against 2,816 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Lake Orion reported 8 violent crimes and 8 property crimes, for a total of 16 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lake Orion's violent crime rate increased by 104.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 25.8%.
The most common crime type in Lake Orion is aggravated assault, accounting for 43.8% of all reported crimes (7 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lake Orion is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Lake Orion's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lake Orion, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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