Rochester Hills, MI has a A safety grade (86/100) with a violent crime rate of 92 per 100,000, 74% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Rochester Hills, MI Crime Rate & Safety
At 75,960 residents, Rochester Hills is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MI and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Rochester Hills, MI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 74% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rochester Hills, MI shows violent crime at 92.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 531.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 74% 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.
A safety grade
92.2/100K violent
531.9/100K property
-74% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Rochester Hills, MI
Comparable rate records
Rochester Hills's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Rochester Hills's 92.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Blissfield (92.4), Tittabawassee Township (91.3), Memphis (94.8), Zeeland (89.0). 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 70.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 92.2 in 2024 (+30.3%). The highest observed value was 92.2 in 2024 and the lowest 64.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Rochester Hills sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 92.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rochester Hills ranks 257 of 366 — above 109 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -51.1% 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 Rochester Hills'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Rochester Hills's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 32.8 Census sq mi, Rochester Hills logged 12.3 property and 2.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Rochester Hills's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 474 offenses; mix index 4,899).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (32.8 sq mi); 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
-38.6%
866.2 → 531.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+20.5%
76.5 → 92.2/100K
Property offenses lead Rochester Hills's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
404
531.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
320
421.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
45
59.2
-
Burglary
39
51.3
-
Arson
1
1.3
-
Violent Crime
70
92.2
352
Aggravated Assault
64
84.3
-
Rape
5
6.6
-
Murder
1
1.3
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Rochester Hills Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Rochester Hills 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
Rochester Hills Police Department
Reporting agency for Rochester Hills NIBRS-participating
Rochester Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Rochester Hills's 474 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 Rochester Hills in population. Their populations run from 69,066 to 82,116, against 75,960 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Rochester Hills reported 70 violent crimes and 404 property crimes, for a total of 474 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Rochester Hills?
From 2023 to 2024, Rochester Hills's violent crime rate increased by 20.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 38.6%.
What is the most common crime in Rochester Hills?
The most common crime type in Rochester Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.5% of all reported crimes (320 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Rochester Hills's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Rochester Hills, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.