County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · violent-led

Crawford County, MI

Crawford County (12,988 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Michigan. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.

Data updated 2026-08-24

26
Violent offenses
20
Property offenses
46
Total · 2024

Crawford County, MI reported 200 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Crawford County, MI agencies reported 26 violent and 20 property offenses. That equals about 200 violent and 154 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
  • 26 violent offenses
  • 200/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Crawford County, MI

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 56.5% of the 46 Part I offenses reported in Crawford County for 2024, against a median of 23.9% across comparable Michigan counties — a gap of 32.6 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.

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Crawford County reported 26 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 12,988. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.

Position in the state cohort

Crawford County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan counties

At 200.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Crawford County ranks 7 of 67 — above 60 of the 66 other Michigan counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +161.2% against the cohort median of 76.6. Counties 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 238.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 200.2 in 2024 (-16.1%). The highest observed value was 269.5 in 2021 and the lowest 200.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · violent-led · mid-size county

Category Count
Violent Crime 26
Murder 0
Rape 7
Robbery 1
Aggravated Assault 18
Property Crime 20
Burglary 5
Larceny-Theft 13
Motor Vehicle Theft 2
Arson 1

Reporting Agency

Crawford County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Crawford County's crime figures on this page originate from Crawford 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

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Michigan counties closest to Crawford County in population. Their populations run from 10,834 to 15,052, against 12,988 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

ZIP Codes in Crawford County

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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.

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