County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Kalamazoo County, MI
At 261,670 residents, Kalamazoo County is a very large county in Michigan. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Kalamazoo County, MI reported 130 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kalamazoo County, MI agencies reported 339 violent and 1,950 property offenses. That equals about 130 violent and 745 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
339 violent offenses
130/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Kalamazoo County, MI
Position in the state cohort
Kalamazoo County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan counties
At 129.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kalamazoo County ranks 16 of 67 — above 51 of the 66 other Michigan counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +69.1% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 14.8% of the 2,289 Part I offenses reported in Kalamazoo County for 2024, against a median of 24.5% across comparable Michigan counties — a gap of 9.7 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 146.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 129.6 in 2024 (-11.7%). The highest observed value was 146.7 in 2020 and the lowest 119.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very 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 · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
1,950
Burglary
347
Larceny-Theft
1,368
Motor Vehicle Theft
235
Arson
8
Violent Crime
339
Murder
2
Rape
40
Robbery
19
Aggravated Assault
278
Reporting Agency
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Kalamazoo County's crime figures on this page originate from Kalamazoo 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.