Manistique, MI has a F safety grade (15/100) with a violent crime rate of 1325 per 100,000, 276% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Manistique is a small municipal reporter (2,868 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MI and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Manistique, MI is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 276% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Manistique, MI shows violent crime at 1,325 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,743.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 276% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 444.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1325.0 in 2024 (+197.9%). The highest observed value was 1325.0 in 2024 and the lowest 444.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 43.2% of the 88 Part I offenses reported in Manistique for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 26.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 1325.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Manistique ranks 9 of 366 — above 357 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +608.7% 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 Manistique's 1325.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Albion (1317.2), Lansing (1345.1), Kalamazoo (1283.5), Buena Vista Township (1376.1). 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
Larceny-theft is 68.0% of reported property offenses in Manistique, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Manistique'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.
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 3.2 Census sq mi, Manistique logged 15.6 property and 11.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Manistique leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,927.
Violent offenses are 43% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Manistique offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.2 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 | 50 | 1743.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 34 | 1185.5 |
| Burglary | 11 | 383.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 174.3 |
| Arson | 1 | 34.9 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 1325 |
| Aggravated Assault | 30 | 1046 |
| Rape | 8 | 278.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,923 | 444.7 | 1436.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,933 | 511.4 | 2318.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,809 | 890 | 1637.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,898 | 690.1 | 1621.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,868 | 1325 | 1743.4 |
Manistique Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Manistique's 88 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 Manistique in population. Their populations run from 2,816 to 3,015, against 2,868 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Manistique sits at 1,325/100K violent (grade F); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Manistique reported 38 violent crimes and 50 property crimes, for a total of 88 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Manistique's violent crime rate increased by 92%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.5%.
The most common crime type in Manistique is larceny-theft, accounting for 38.6% of all reported crimes (34 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Manistique 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 Manistique's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Manistique, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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