Manistique, MI carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 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.
F safety grade
1325/100K violent
1743.4/100K property
+276% vs U.S.
The verdict
Manistique earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 276% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
F
PlainCrime safety grade
+276%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
1st
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
1,743.4
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Manistique, MI
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
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 make up an unusually large share of the reported 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
Manistique reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
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
Manistique's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+92%
690.1 → 1325/100K
Property Crime Rate
+7.5%
1621.8 → 1743.4/100K
Manistique's 2024 offense mix (violent and property)
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs MI
Property Crime
50
1743.4
1711
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
34
1185.5
-
-
Burglary
11
383.5
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
5
174.3
-
-
Arson
1
34.9
-
-
Violent Crime
38
1325
352
431.4
Aggravated Assault
30
1046
-
-
Rape
8
278.9
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Manistique Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Manistique violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
1,325/100K↑92%vs 2023
Manistique property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
1,743.4/100K↑7.5%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
2,923
444.7
1436.9
55
2021
Comparable
2,933
511.4
2318.4
83
2022
Comparable
2,809
890
1637.6
71
2023
Comparable
2,898
690.1
1621.8
67
2024
Comparable
2,868
1325
1743.4
88
How Manistique sits among MI peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Manistique Police Department NIBRS-participating
Manistique's crime figures on this page originate from Manistique Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Manistique in population. Their populations run from 2,816 to 3,015, against 2,868 here. Or use our
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These Michigan cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Manistique's 1,325/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Manistique has a violent crime rate of 1325 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1743.4 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Manistique, MI safe? ▼
Manistique receives a safety grade of F (High Risk), with a safety score of 15/100. The violent crime rate is 276% above the national average and 207% above the Michigan average.
What is the population of Manistique, MI? ▼
The reporting population for Manistique is 2,868 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Manistique? ▼
In 2024, Manistique reported 38 violent crimes and 50 property crimes, for a total of 88 reported offenses.
How do Manistique's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Manistique recorded about one reported offense per 33 residents and one reported violent offense per 75 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Manistique? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Manistique's violent crime rate increased by 92%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.5%.
What is the most common crime in Manistique? ▼
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.
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.