Thomas Township, MI has a B safety grade (67/100) with a violent crime rate of 270 per 100,000, 23% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Thomas Township (11,854 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 2026-09-05
Thomas Township, MI is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 23% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Thomas Township, MI shows violent crime at 270 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 708.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 23% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 131.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 270.0 in 2024 (+105.4%). The highest observed value was 329.9 in 2023 and the lowest 131.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Thomas Township's 270.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Plainwell (267.8), Emmett Township (272.5), Roosevelt Park (267.0), Fowlerville (273.5). 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 27.6% of the 116 Part I offenses reported in Thomas Township for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 10.9 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
At 270.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Thomas Township ranks 134 of 366 — above 232 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +44.4% 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.
Property counts dominate Thomas 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Thomas Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 116 offenses; mix index 4,441).
Violent offenses are 28% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Thomas Township offense mix (2024)
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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 84 | 708.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 71 | 599 |
| Burglary | 8 | 67.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 42.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 32 | 270 |
| Aggravated Assault | 29 | 244.6 |
| Rape | 2 | 16.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 8.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 11,411 | 131.5 | 762.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,366 | 220 | 607.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,903 | 260.4 | 546.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,822 | 329.9 | 617.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,854 | 270 | 708.6 |
Thomas Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Thomas Township's 116 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 Thomas Township in population. Their populations run from 11,566 to 12,267, against 11,854 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Thomas Township sits at 270/100K violent (grade B); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Thomas Township at 270/100K violent and 708.6/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
270/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
708.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Thomas Township reported 32 violent crimes and 84 property crimes, for a total of 116 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Thomas Township's violent crime rate decreased by 18.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 14.8%.
The most common crime type in Thomas Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.2% of all reported crimes (71 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Thomas Township 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 Thomas Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Thomas Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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