Southfield, MI has a D safety grade (30/100) with a violent crime rate of 493 per 100,000, 40% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Southfield, MI Crime Rate & Safety
At 75,454 residents, Southfield 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.
Southfield, MI is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 40% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Southfield, MI shows violent crime at 493 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,420 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 40% 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.
D safety grade
493/100K violent
2420/100K property
+40% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Southfield, MI
Comparable rate records
Southfield's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Southfield's 493.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hamtramck (488.6), Gaylord (499.8), Alma (503.8), Kalamazoo Township (510.3). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Southfield reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 493.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Southfield ranks 54 of 366 — above 312 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +163.7% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 397.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 493.0 in 2024 (+24.2%). The highest observed value was 548.3 in 2023 and the lowest 397.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 60.6% of reported property offenses in Southfield, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (306) and motor vehicle theft (413). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Southfield'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.
Southfield's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 26.3 Census sq mi, Southfield logged 69.5 property and 14.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Southfield leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,271.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (26.3 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
-13.3%
2792.2 → 2420/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-10.1%
548.3 → 493/100K
Property offenses lead Southfield's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
1,826
2420
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
1,107
1467.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
413
547.4
-
Burglary
306
405.5
-
Arson
9
11.9
-
Violent Crime
372
493
431.4
Aggravated Assault
296
392.3
-
Rape
45
59.6
-
Robbery
30
39.8
-
Murder
1
1.3
-
Southfield Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Southfield 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Southfield: 493 violent, 2420 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Rochester Hills: 92 violent, 532 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Wyoming: 471 violent, 2145 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Kalamazoo: 1284 violent, 3448 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Flint: 1258 violent, 1312 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Shelby Township: 160 violent, 543 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Westland: 449 violent, 1356 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Waterford Township: 279 violent, 830 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Farmington Hills: 199 violent, 681 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Southfield Police Department
Reporting agency for Southfield NIBRS-participating
Southfield Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Southfield's 2,198 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 Southfield in population. Their populations run from 69,066 to 82,116, against 75,454 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Southfield reported 372 violent crimes and 1,826 property crimes, for a total of 2,198 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Southfield?
From 2023 to 2024, Southfield's violent crime rate decreased by 10.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.3%.
What is the most common crime in Southfield?
The most common crime type in Southfield is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.4% of all reported crimes (1,107 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Southfield'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 Southfield, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.