Ypsilanti, MI has a F safety grade (14/100) with a violent crime rate of 657 per 100,000, 87% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Ypsilanti (19,021 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 2026-08-24
Ypsilanti, MI carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 87% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ypsilanti, MI shows violent crime at 657.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,376.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 87% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 657.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ypsilanti ranks 32 of 366 — above 334 of the 365 other Michigan cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +251.5% 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1467.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 657.2 in 2024 (-55.2%). The highest observed value was 1626.1 in 2021 and the lowest 657.2 in 2024. 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 Ypsilanti's 657.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lansing Township (666.9), South Haven (672.8), Gladwin (638.2), Genesee Township (678.3). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 67.9% of reported property offenses in Ypsilanti, against a cohort median of 79.7%. The remainder is burglary (72) and motor vehicle theft (73). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.7% of the 577 Part I offenses reported in Ypsilanti for 2024, against a median of 16.7% across comparable Michigan cities — a gap of 5.0 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 Ypsilanti'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.
Across 4.3 Census sq mi, Ypsilanti logged 105.3 property and 29.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Ypsilanti leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,393.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Ypsilanti offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 452 | 2376.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 307 | 1614 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 73 | 383.8 |
| Burglary | 72 | 378.5 |
| Arson | 2 | 10.5 |
| Violent Crime | 125 | 657.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 86 | 452.1 |
| Rape | 23 | 120.9 |
| Robbery | 16 | 84.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 20,240 | 1467.4 | 2959.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 19,986 | 1626.1 | 2281.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 19,872 | 1056.8 | 2843.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 19,332 | 1034.6 | 3098.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,021 | 657.2 | 2376.3 |
Ypsilanti Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ypsilanti's 577 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 Ypsilanti in population. Their populations run from 19,041 to 20,306, against 19,021 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Ypsilanti sits at 657.2/100K violent (grade F); the Michigan cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Ypsilanti at 657.2/100K violent and 2,376.3/100K property - matched below outside Michigan (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
657.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,376.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Ypsilanti reported 125 violent crimes and 452 property crimes, for a total of 577 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Ypsilanti's violent crime rate decreased by 36.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.3%.
The most common crime type in Ypsilanti is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.2% of all reported crimes (307 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Ypsilanti 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 Ypsilanti's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ypsilanti, MI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ypsilanti is scored in the mid-size municipal band (19,021 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.