Van Buren Township, MI has a C safety grade (49/100) with a violent crime rate of 328 per 100,000, 7% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Van Buren Township, MI Crime Rate & Safety
Van Buren Township (29,591 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MI and national benchmarks.
Van Buren Township, MI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 7% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Van Buren Township, MI shows violent crime at 327.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,068.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 7% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
327.8/100K violent
2068.2/100K property
-7% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Van Buren Township, MI
Comparable rate records
Van Buren Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Van Buren Township's 327.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Vicksburg (328.0), Iron River (328.9), Lexington (322.6), Manistee (334.3). 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
Van Buren Township sits mid-pack among comparable Michigan cities
At 327.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Van Buren Township ranks 104 of 366 — above 262 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +75.3% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 366.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 327.8 in 2024 (-10.6%). The highest observed value was 366.8 in 2020 and the lowest 327.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 13.7% of the 709 Part I offenses reported in Van Buren Township for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 3.1 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.
Property counts dominate Van Buren 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.
Van Buren Township's 2024 municipal footprint
Van Buren Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 709 offenses; mix index 5,288).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+9%
1897.2 → 2068.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-7.8%
355.5 → 327.8/100K
Property offenses lead Van Buren Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MI
Property Crime
612
2068.2
1395.3
Larceny-Theft
502
1696.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
69
233.2
-
Burglary
41
138.6
-
Arson
1
3.4
-
Violent Crime
97
327.8
431.4
Aggravated Assault
85
287.2
-
Rape
12
40.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Van Buren Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Van Buren 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
Van Buren Township Police Department
Reporting agency for Van Buren Township NIBRS-participating
Van Buren Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Van Buren Township's 709 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 Van Buren Township in population. Their populations run from 28,188 to 30,866, against 29,591 here. Or use our
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Van Buren Township at 327.8/100K violent and 2,068.2/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Van Buren Township?
In 2024, Van Buren Township reported 97 violent crimes and 612 property crimes, for a total of 709 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Van Buren Township?
From 2023 to 2024, Van Buren Township's violent crime rate decreased by 7.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 9%.
What is the most common crime in Van Buren Township?
The most common crime type in Van Buren Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.8% of all reported crimes (502 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Van Buren 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Van Buren Township, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.