Lincoln Park, MI carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 93% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lincoln Park, MI shows violent crime at 678.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,768.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 93% 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
678.6/100K violent
1768.5/100K property
+93% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lincoln Park, MI
Position in the state cohort
Lincoln Park reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 678.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lincoln Park ranks 28 of 366 — above 338 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +262.9% 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
Lincoln Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lincoln Park's 678.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Genesee Township (678.3), South Haven (672.8), Dowagiac (689.0), Lansing Township (666.9). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 27.7% of the 934 Part I offenses reported in Lincoln Park for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 11.0 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 672.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 678.6 in 2024 (+0.9%). The highest observed value was 758.1 in 2021 and the lowest 589.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lincoln 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.
Lincoln Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.8 Census sq mi, Lincoln Park logged 115.7 property and 44.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lincoln Park leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,732.
Violent offenses are 28% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+15.1%
589.8 → 678.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-8.7%
1936 → 1768.5/100K
Property offenses lead Lincoln Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
675
1768.5
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
508
1330.9
-
Burglary
94
246.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
73
191.3
-
Arson
5
13.1
-
Violent Crime
259
678.6
431.4
Aggravated Assault
230
602.6
-
Robbery
17
44.5
-
Rape
12
31.4
-
Murder
0
0
-
Lincoln Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Lincoln Park 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
Lincoln Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Lincoln Park NIBRS-participating
Lincoln Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lincoln Park's 934 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 Lincoln Park in population. Their populations run from 34,604 to 40,864, against 38,169 here. Or use our
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Lincoln Park at 678.6/100K violent and 1,768.5/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Lincoln Park reported 259 violent crimes and 675 property crimes, for a total of 934 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Lincoln Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Lincoln Park's violent crime rate increased by 15.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.7%.
What is the most common crime in Lincoln Park?
The most common crime type in Lincoln Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.4% of all reported crimes (508 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lincoln 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lincoln Park, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.