Mackinaw City, MI has a F safety grade (11/100) with a violent crime rate of 590 per 100,000, 68% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Mackinaw City's UCR row covers a small municipal population (847). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to MI and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Mackinaw City, MI is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 68% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mackinaw City, MI shows violent crime at 590.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,541.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 68% 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.
Small-count caution
Mackinaw City reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 847. 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 377.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 590.3 in 2024 (+56.2%). The highest observed value was 1262.6 in 2021 and the lowest 233.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 590.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mackinaw City ranks 36 of 366 — above 330 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +215.7% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mackinaw City's 590.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Port Huron (602.8), Lakeview (576.9), Adrian (571.8), Croswell (567.4). 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 counts dominate Mackinaw City'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.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 847. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 3.4 Census sq mi, Mackinaw City logged 8.7 property and 1.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mackinaw City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 35 offenses; mix index 4,759).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Mackinaw City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.4 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 | 30 | 3541.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 23 | 2715.5 |
| Burglary | 6 | 708.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 118.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 590.3 |
| Rape | 4 | 472.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 118.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 794 | 377.8 | 1889.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 792 | 1262.6 | 2399 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 856 | 233.6 | 2453.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 848 | 589.6 | 2004.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 847 | 590.3 | 3541.9 |
Mackinaw City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mackinaw City's 35 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 Mackinaw City in population. Their populations run from 781 to 904, against 847 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Mackinaw City sits at 590.3/100K violent (grade F); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Mackinaw City reported 5 violent crimes and 30 property crimes, for a total of 35 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Mackinaw City's violent crime rate increased by 0.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 76.7%.
The most common crime type in Mackinaw City is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.7% of all reported crimes (23 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Mackinaw City's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Mackinaw City's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mackinaw City, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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