Madison Heights, MI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 21% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Madison Heights, MI shows violent crime at 276.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,458.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% 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.
B safety grade
276.7/100K violent
1458.1/100K property
-21% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Madison Heights, MI
Comparable rate records
Madison Heights's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Madison Heights's 276.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Portage (277.2), Reading (277.3), Oscoda Township (277.4), Vernon (277.4). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Madison Heights sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 276.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Madison Heights ranks 130 of 366 — above 236 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +48.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 247.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 276.7 in 2024 (+11.8%). The highest observed value was 300.4 in 2021 and the lowest 242.2 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Madison Heights'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.
Madison Heights's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 7.1 Census sq mi, Madison Heights logged 58 property and 11 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Madison Heights's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 489 offenses; mix index 4,407).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-23.5%
1905.8 → 1458.1/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-5.9%
294 → 276.7/100K
Property offenses lead Madison Heights's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
411
1458.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
309
1096.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
70
248.3
-
Burglary
32
113.5
-
Arson
4
14.2
-
Violent Crime
78
276.7
352
Aggravated Assault
62
220
-
Robbery
8
28.4
-
Rape
6
21.3
-
Murder
2
7.1
-
Madison Heights Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Madison Heights 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
Madison Heights Police Department
Reporting agency for Madison Heights NIBRS-participating
Madison Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Madison Heights's 489 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 Madison Heights in population. Their populations run from 26,824 to 29,591, against 28,188 here. Or use our
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Madison Heights at 276.7/100K violent and 1,458.1/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Madison Heights reported 78 violent crimes and 411 property crimes, for a total of 489 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Madison Heights?
From 2023 to 2024, Madison Heights's violent crime rate decreased by 5.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.5%.
What is the most common crime in Madison Heights?
The most common crime type in Madison Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.2% of all reported crimes (309 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Madison Heights 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 Madison Heights, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.