Westland, MI has a C safety grade (43/100) with a violent crime rate of 449 per 100,000, 28% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Westland, MI Crime Rate & Safety
At 81,727 residents, Westland 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.
Westland, MI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 28% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Westland, MI shows violent crime at 449.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,355.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 28% above 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
449.1/100K violent
1355.7/100K property
+28% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Westland, MI
Comparable rate records
Westland's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Michigan cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Westland's 449.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Southgate (446.0), Clinton (444.4), St. Joseph (442.2), Greenville (442.1). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Westland reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan cities
At 449.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Westland ranks 64 of 366 — above 302 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +140.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 24.9% of the 1,475 Part I offenses reported in Westland for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 8.2 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 68.4% of reported property offenses in Westland, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (161) and motor vehicle theft (189). 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 408.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 449.1 in 2024 (+9.9%). The highest observed value was 523.6 in 2023 and the lowest 408.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Westland'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.
Westland's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 20.4 Census sq mi, Westland logged 54.2 property and 18 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Westland leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,322.
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.4 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
-16.9%
1630.7 → 1355.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-14.2%
523.6 → 449.1/100K
Property offenses lead Westland's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,108
1355.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
758
927.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
189
231.3
-
Burglary
161
197
-
Arson
11
13.5
-
Violent Crime
367
449.1
352
Aggravated Assault
289
353.6
-
Rape
45
55.1
-
Robbery
30
36.7
-
Murder
3
3.7
-
Westland Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Westland 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
Westland Police Department
Reporting agency for Westland NIBRS-participating
Westland Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Westland's 1,475 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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In 2024, Westland reported 367 violent crimes and 1,108 property crimes, for a total of 1,475 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Westland?
From 2023 to 2024, Westland's violent crime rate decreased by 14.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.9%.
What is the most common crime in Westland?
The most common crime type in Westland is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.4% of all reported crimes (758 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Westland'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 Westland, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.