Shelby Township, MI has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 160 per 100,000, 55% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Shelby Township, MI Crime Rate & Safety
At 79,985 residents, Shelby Township 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.
Shelby Township, MI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 55% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Shelby Township, MI shows violent crime at 160 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 542.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 55% 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
160/100K violent
542.6/100K property
-55% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Shelby Township, MI
Comparable rate records
Shelby Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Shelby Township's 160.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mason (160.2), Hartford (162.1), Metamora Township (155.0), Grand Blanc (165.1). 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 127.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 160.0 in 2024 (+25.3%). The highest observed value was 160.0 in 2024 and the lowest 127.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.8% of the 562 Part I offenses reported in Shelby Township for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 6.1 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.
Position in the state cohort
Shelby Township sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 160.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Shelby Township ranks 207 of 366 — above 159 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -15.0% 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 Shelby 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.
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.
Shelby Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Shelby Township leans on larceny-theft at 59% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,930.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+9.7%
145.8 → 160/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.9%
602.2 → 542.6/100K
Property offenses lead Shelby Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
434
542.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
329
411.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
69
86.3
-
Burglary
36
45
-
Arson
1
1.3
-
Violent Crime
128
160
352
Aggravated Assault
95
118.8
-
Rape
28
35
-
Robbery
5
6.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
Shelby Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Shelby 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
Shelby Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Shelby Township NIBRS-participating
Shelby Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Shelby Township's 562 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 Shelby Township in population. Their populations run from 73,002 to 87,422, against 79,985 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Shelby Township reported 128 violent crimes and 434 property crimes, for a total of 562 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Shelby Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Shelby Township's violent crime rate increased by 9.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.9%.
What is the most common crime in Shelby Township?
The most common crime type in Shelby Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.5% of all reported crimes (329 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Shelby Township'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 Shelby Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.