Port Huron, MI has a D safety grade (27/100) with a violent crime rate of 603 per 100,000, 71% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Port Huron (28,204 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
Port Huron, MI carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 71% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Port Huron, MI shows violent crime at 602.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,503.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 602.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Port Huron ranks 35 of 366 — above 331 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +222.4% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Port Huron's 602.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mackinaw City (590.3), Lakeview (576.9), Adrian (571.8), Caro (634.5). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 28.6% of the 594 Part I offenses reported in Port Huron for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 11.9 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 821.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 602.8 in 2024 (-26.6%). The highest observed value was 821.6 in 2020 and the lowest 602.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Port Huron'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.
Across 8.1 Census sq mi, Port Huron logged 52.3 property and 21 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Port Huron leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,709.
Violent offenses are 29% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Port Huron offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 424 | 1503.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 322 | 1141.7 |
| Burglary | 74 | 262.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 28 | 99.3 |
| Arson | 9 | 31.9 |
| Violent Crime | 170 | 602.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 142 | 503.5 |
| Rape | 26 | 92.2 |
| Robbery | 2 | 7.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 28,602 | 821.6 | 2272.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 28,487 | 807.4 | 1934.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 28,675 | 739.3 | 2019.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 28,469 | 685 | 1499.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 28,204 | 602.8 | 1503.3 |
Port Huron Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Port Huron's 594 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 Port Huron in population. Their populations run from 26,824 to 29,591, against 28,204 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Port Huron sits at 602.8/100K violent (grade D); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Port Huron at 602.8/100K violent and 1,503.3/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
602.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,503.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-12% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Port Huron reported 170 violent crimes and 424 property crimes, for a total of 594 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Port Huron's violent crime rate decreased by 12%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.2%.
The most common crime type in Port Huron is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.2% of all reported crimes (322 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Port Huron 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 Port Huron's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Port Huron, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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