County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Bay County, MI
At 103,856 residents, Bay County is a large county in Michigan. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Bay County, MI reported 29 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bay County, MI agencies reported 30 violent and 421 property offenses. That equals about 29 violent and 405 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
30 violent offenses
29/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bay County, MI
Position in the state cohort
Bay County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan counties
At 28.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bay County ranks 58 of 67 — above 9 of the 66 other Michigan counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -62.8% against the cohort median of 77.6. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 6.7% of the 451 Part I offenses reported in Bay County for 2024, against a median of 24.5% across comparable Michigan counties — a gap of 17.9 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 38.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 28.9 in 2024 (-25.0%). The highest observed value was 59.7 in 2022 and the lowest 28.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
421
Burglary
91
Larceny-Theft
291
Motor Vehicle Theft
39
Arson
7
Violent Crime
30
Murder
0
Rape
7
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
23
Reporting Agency
Bay County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Bay County's crime figures on this page originate from Bay County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Michigan
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.