Royal Oak, MI has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 124 per 100,000, 65% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Royal Oak, MI Crime Rate & Safety
At 57,257 residents, Royal Oak 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.
Royal Oak, MI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 65% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Royal Oak, MI shows violent crime at 124 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 801.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 65% 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
124/100K violent
801.6/100K property
-65% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Royal Oak, MI
Comparable rate records
Royal Oak's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Royal Oak's 124.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Clayton Township (124.4), St. Joseph Township (123.4), Whitehall (126.2), Midland (121.7). 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 100.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 124.0 in 2024 (+23.0%). The highest observed value was 157.3 in 2023 and the lowest 100.8 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
Royal Oak sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 124.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Royal Oak ranks 232 of 366 — above 134 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -34.1% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 13.4% of the 530 Part I offenses reported in Royal Oak for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 3.4 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 Royal Oak'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.
Royal Oak's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.8 Census sq mi, Royal Oak logged 38.9 property and 6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Royal Oak's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 530 offenses; mix index 4,785).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-21.2%
157.3 → 124/100K
Property Crime Rate
-14.9%
941.8 → 801.6/100K
Property offenses lead Royal Oak's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
459
801.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
353
616.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
69
120.5
-
Burglary
37
64.6
-
Arson
1
1.7
-
Violent Crime
71
124
352
Aggravated Assault
60
104.8
-
Robbery
7
12.2
-
Rape
4
7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Royal Oak Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Royal Oak 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
Royal Oak Police Department
Reporting agency for Royal Oak NIBRS-participating
Royal Oak Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Royal Oak's 530 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 Royal Oak in population. Their populations run from 50,472 to 64,892, against 57,257 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Royal Oak reported 71 violent crimes and 459 property crimes, for a total of 530 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Royal Oak?
From 2023 to 2024, Royal Oak's violent crime rate decreased by 21.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.9%.
What is the most common crime in Royal Oak?
The most common crime type in Royal Oak is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.6% of all reported crimes (353 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Royal Oak'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 Royal Oak, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.