St. Clair Shores, MI has a B safety grade (72/100) with a violent crime rate of 186 per 100,000, 47% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
St. Clair Shores, MI Crime Rate & Safety
At 57,157 residents, St. Clair Shores 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.
St. Clair Shores, MI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 47% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, St. Clair Shores, MI shows violent crime at 185.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,065.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 47% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
185.5/100K violent
1065.5/100K property
-47% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for St. Clair Shores, MI
Comparable rate records
St. Clair Shores's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to St. Clair Shores's 185.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are St. Louis (185.3), Ionia (184.9), Davison Township (186.7), Chikaming Township (184.2). 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 52.5% of reported property offenses in St. Clair Shores, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (200) and motor vehicle theft (89). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 180.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 185.5 in 2024 (+3.0%). The highest observed value was 185.5 in 2024 and the lowest 132.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
St. Clair Shores sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 185.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, St. Clair Shores ranks 186 of 366 — above 180 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -1.5% 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 St. Clair Shores'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.
St. Clair Shores's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.7 Census sq mi, St. Clair Shores logged 52.1 property and 9.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
St. Clair Shores leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,080.
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.7 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
+39.8%
132.7 → 185.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
+1.7%
1047.9 → 1065.5/100K
Property offenses lead St. Clair Shores's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
609
1065.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
320
559.9
-
Burglary
200
349.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
89
155.7
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
106
185.5
352
Aggravated Assault
83
145.2
-
Robbery
12
21
-
Rape
11
19.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
St. Clair Shores Crime Trend (2020-2024)
St. Clair Shores 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
St. Clair Shores Police Department
Reporting agency for St. Clair Shores NIBRS-participating
St. Clair Shores Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind St. Clair Shores's 715 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
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St. Clair Shores at 185.5/100K violent and 1,065.5/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in St. Clair Shores?
In 2024, St. Clair Shores reported 106 violent crimes and 609 property crimes, for a total of 715 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in St. Clair Shores?
From 2023 to 2024, St. Clair Shores's violent crime rate increased by 39.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.7%.
What is the most common crime in St. Clair Shores?
The most common crime type in St. Clair Shores is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.8% of all reported crimes (320 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: St. Clair Shores'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 St. Clair Shores, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.