Oak Park, MI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 13% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oak Park, MI shows violent crime at 398.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,089.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 13% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
398.5/100K violent
2089.5/100K property
+13% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Oak Park, MI
Comparable rate records
Oak Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oak Park's 398.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sault Ste. Marie (405.7), Newaygo (390.0), Hart (389.3), Stockbridge (388.5). 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
Oak Park reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 398.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oak Park ranks 77 of 366 — above 289 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +113.1% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 48.1% of reported property offenses in Oak Park, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (188) and motor vehicle theft (125). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 333.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 398.5 in 2024 (+19.7%). The highest observed value was 398.5 in 2024 and the lowest 297.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Oak Park'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.
Oak Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.1 Census sq mi, Oak Park logged 117.2 property and 22.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oak Park leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,790.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+20%
332.1 → 398.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-11%
2349 → 2089.5/100K
Property offenses lead Oak Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
603
2089.5
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
290
1004.9
-
Burglary
188
651.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
125
433.2
-
Arson
4
13.9
-
Violent Crime
115
398.5
431.4
Aggravated Assault
92
318.8
-
Robbery
14
48.5
-
Rape
8
27.7
-
Murder
1
3.5
-
Oak Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Oak Park property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Oak Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Oak Park NIBRS-participating
Oak Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oak Park's 718 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 Oak Park in population. Their populations run from 27,014 to 30,704, against 28,858 here. Or use our
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Oak Park at 398.5/100K violent and 2,089.5/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Oak Park reported 115 violent crimes and 603 property crimes, for a total of 718 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Oak Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Oak Park's violent crime rate increased by 20%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11%.
What is the most common crime in Oak Park?
The most common crime type in Oak Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 40.4% of all reported crimes (290 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Oak Park 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 Oak Park, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.