Oakland Township, MI has a A+ safety grade (96/100) with a violent crime rate of 30 per 100,000, 92% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Oakland Township (20,306 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MI and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Oakland Township, MI carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 92% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oakland Township, MI shows violent crime at 29.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 172.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 92% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Oakland Township reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 20,306. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 29.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oakland Township ranks 329 of 366 — above 37 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -84.3% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oakland Township's 29.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Napoleon Township (29.9), Essexville (30.5), Springfield Township (27.1), Huntington Woods (32.1). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 50.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 29.5 in 2024 (-41.3%). The highest observed value was 73.8 in 2023 and the lowest 29.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Oakland 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.
Based on 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 20,306. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Oakland Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 41 offenses; mix index 5,265).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Oakland Township offense mix (2024)
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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 35 | 172.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 29 | 142.8 |
| Burglary | 3 | 14.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 14.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 6 | 29.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 24.6 |
| Rape | 1 | 4.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 19,882 | 50.3 | 140.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 20,072 | 44.8 | 139.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 20,234 | 39.5 | 69.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 20,328 | 73.8 | 270.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 20,306 | 29.5 | 172.4 |
Oakland Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oakland Township's 41 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 Oakland Township in population. Their populations run from 19,494 to 21,186, against 20,306 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Oakland Township sits at 29.5/100K violent (grade A+); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Oakland Township at 29.5/100K violent and 172.4/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
29.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
172.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Oakland Township reported 6 violent crimes and 35 property crimes, for a total of 41 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Oakland Township's violent crime rate decreased by 60%, and the property crime rate decreased by 36.3%.
The most common crime type in Oakland Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.7% of all reported crimes (29 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Oakland 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Oakland Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Oakland Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Oakland Township is scored in the mid-size municipal band (20,306 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.