Meridian Township, MI has a B safety grade (67/100) with a violent crime rate of 182 per 100,000, 48% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Meridian Township, MI Crime Rate & Safety
Meridian Township (43,912 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MI and national benchmarks.
Meridian Township, MI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 48% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Meridian Township, MI shows violent crime at 182.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,701.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 48% 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
182.2/100K violent
1701.1/100K property
-48% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Meridian Township, MI
Comparable rate records
Meridian Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Meridian Township's 182.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Orchard Lake (182.0), Wixom (181.1), Chikaming Township (184.2), Ionia (184.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 236.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 182.2 in 2024 (-22.9%). The highest observed value was 236.2 in 2020 and the lowest 179.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.7% of the 827 Part I offenses reported in Meridian Township for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 7.1 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
Meridian Township sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 182.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Meridian Township ranks 190 of 366 — above 176 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -3.2% against the cohort median of 188.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Meridian Township'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.
Meridian Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Meridian Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 827 offenses; mix index 5,550).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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
-16.7%
218.8 → 182.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-5.8%
1805.3 → 1701.1/100K
Property offenses lead Meridian Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
747
1701.1
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
605
1377.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
83
189
-
Burglary
59
134.4
-
Arson
1
2.3
-
Violent Crime
80
182.2
431.4
Aggravated Assault
53
120.7
-
Rape
18
41
-
Robbery
9
20.5
-
Murder
0
0
-
Meridian Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Meridian Township 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
Meridian Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Meridian Township NIBRS-participating
Meridian Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Meridian Township's 827 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 Meridian Township in population. Their populations run from 39,880 to 47,067, against 43,912 here. Or use our
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Meridian Township at 182.2/100K violent and 1,701.1/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Meridian Township?
In 2024, Meridian Township reported 80 violent crimes and 747 property crimes, for a total of 827 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Meridian Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Meridian Township's violent crime rate decreased by 16.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.8%.
What is the most common crime in Meridian Township?
The most common crime type in Meridian Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.2% of all reported crimes (605 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Meridian Township 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 Meridian Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.