Pittsfield Township, MI has a C safety grade (58/100) with a violent crime rate of 265 per 100,000, 25% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Pittsfield Township, MI Crime Rate & Safety
Pittsfield Township (39,244 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MI and national benchmarks.
Pittsfield Township, MI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 25% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pittsfield Township, MI shows violent crime at 265 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,816.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% below 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
265/100K violent
1816.8/100K property
-25% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pittsfield Township, MI
Comparable rate records
Pittsfield Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pittsfield Township's 265.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Marshall (266.4), Roosevelt Park (267.0), Plainwell (267.8), Birch Run (260.6). 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 198.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 265.0 in 2024 (+33.9%). The highest observed value was 303.4 in 2023 and the lowest 198.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Pittsfield Township sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 265.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pittsfield Township ranks 138 of 366 — above 228 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +41.7% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 12.7% of the 817 Part I offenses reported in Pittsfield Township for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 4.0 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.
Property counts dominate Pittsfield 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.
Pittsfield Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Pittsfield Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 817 offenses; mix index 5,900).
Violent offenses are only 13% 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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-15.7%
2154.5 → 1816.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-12.7%
303.4 → 265/100K
Property offenses lead Pittsfield Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
713
1816.8
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
618
1574.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
60
152.9
-
Burglary
35
89.2
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
104
265
431.4
Aggravated Assault
83
211.5
-
Rape
11
28
-
Robbery
9
22.9
-
Murder
1
2.5
-
Pittsfield Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Pittsfield Township 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
Pittsfield Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Pittsfield Township NIBRS-participating
Pittsfield Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pittsfield Township's 817 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 Pittsfield Township in population. Their populations run from 35,833 to 42,712, against 39,244 here. Or use our
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How many crimes were reported in Pittsfield Township?
In 2024, Pittsfield Township reported 104 violent crimes and 713 property crimes, for a total of 817 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Pittsfield Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Pittsfield Township's violent crime rate decreased by 12.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.7%.
What is the most common crime in Pittsfield Township?
The most common crime type in Pittsfield Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.6% of all reported crimes (618 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Pittsfield 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 Pittsfield Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.