Romulus, MI has a F safety grade (12/100) with a violent crime rate of 879 per 100,000, 150% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Romulus (24,567 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
Romulus, MI carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 150% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Romulus, MI shows violent crime at 879.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,063.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 150% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 879.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Romulus ranks 21 of 366 — above 345 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +370.3% 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 Romulus's 879.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Grand Rapids (910.1), Taylor (838.3), Flint Township (930.1), Mount Morris Township (959.3). 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 29.9% of the 723 Part I offenses reported in Romulus for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 13.2 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 65.3% of reported property offenses in Romulus, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (53) and motor vehicle theft (123). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1058.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 879.2 in 2024 (-16.9%). The highest observed value was 1058.1 in 2020 and the lowest 879.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Romulus'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 35.6 Census sq mi, Romulus logged 14.2 property and 6.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Romulus leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,029.
Violent offenses are 30% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Romulus offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (35.6 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 | 507 | 2063.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 331 | 1347.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 123 | 500.7 |
| Burglary | 53 | 215.7 |
| Arson | 6 | 24.4 |
| Violent Crime | 216 | 879.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 173 | 704.2 |
| Robbery | 24 | 97.7 |
| Rape | 17 | 69.2 |
| Murder | 2 | 8.1 |
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 | 23,533 | 1058.1 | 2056.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 23,488 | 936.6 | 2792.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 25,071 | 965.3 | 2512.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 25,063 | 893.7 | 2465.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 24,567 | 879.2 | 2063.7 |
Romulus Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Romulus's 723 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 Romulus in population. Their populations run from 23,778 to 26,094, against 24,567 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Romulus sits at 879.2/100K violent (grade F); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Romulus at 879.2/100K violent and 2,063.7/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
879.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,063.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Romulus reported 216 violent crimes and 507 property crimes, for a total of 723 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Romulus's violent crime rate decreased by 1.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.3%.
The most common crime type in Romulus is larceny-theft, accounting for 45.8% of all reported crimes (331 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Romulus 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 Romulus's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Romulus, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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